Re: [APML] Three New Images

["Stan Richard" <stanrichard@hotmail.com>]

Jon, I see you are putting to good use your time off.  Your images are very 
nice, very high level of detail there.  If you're unhappy with these, I'd 
like to see the originals, wow.  Someone not long ago told me PW could not 
compete with PS, I don't think so.  Hope you find a good gig you like soon, 
gotta have that money to blow on astrophotography<g>  Thanks.

Stan


>From: "Jon Kolb" <jkolb@datawest.net>
>Reply-To: astro-photo@seds.org
>To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Subject: [APML] Three New Images
>Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 14:47:06 -0700
>
>If there's something good about being out of work, it's that I have more
>time for astrophotography.  Not as much as I'd hoped last week, however,
>since an outplacement seminar, resume writing "for real" for the first
>time in almost 18 years, and filing for unemployment compensation turn
>out to be pretty time consuming activities.  Hence, a hoped-for run down
>to Chiricahua over the weekend didn't materialize, and the weather here
>has been very unsettled.
>
>Nevertheless, here's three from last Friday night, taken in bitter cold
>(7F) at 9000 feet at the Badger Flats site in central Colorado.  These
>are all single 60-minute exposures on E200 120, taken with the Borg
>100ED at f/6.4.  Once again, I am disappointed by the effects of
>conversion to 24-bit and compression to .jpg format, but I'll get over
>it.  Stars seem to get blown out by the process of making web images,
>and the full-res images have much tighter faint stars.
>
>A new Seagull to replace an older image done with the Epsilon:
>http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/seagull_nebula.htm
>
>Finally, a Cone Nebula region worth posting (by my standards, anyway):
>http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/cone_region.htm
>
>This M78/Barnard's Loop composition came out better than the slide
>suggested it would.  There was some kind of reflection or haze, probably
>from some passing high clouds, along the bottom of the frame that had to
>be cropped out, and I think the haze probably lowered the contrast
>somewhat:
>http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/m78+barnards.htm
>
>I also shot all of this stuff with Provia-F 100 135 in the Epsilon, but
>it's mostly all a mess and not worth the space to post.  Poor focus on
>one shot, bad star shapes on another, and lackluster red response on
>all.  Blue response looked quite good, though.  Looks like it's time to
>give the Epsilon a check-up.  I think 3.5 years of remote site field
>use, despite careful handling, have caught up with it - but hey, I've
>got the time to deal with it now.
>
>Sincerely,
>Jon Kolb
>Adventures in Astrophotography
>http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/
>jkolb@datawest.net
>719-330-3160
>
>
>
>--  APML Archives at <http://astro.umsystem.edu/apml/>  ---
>              Unsubscribe at <majordomo@seds.org>


_________________________________________________________________
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com


--  APML Archives at <http://astro.umsystem.edu/apml/>  ---
             Unsubscribe at <majordomo@seds.org>