Re: [APML] New Rosette Picture, with 4 Year Old PPF

["Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

I think you mean Mike Cook's grain reduction technique... :-)

Chris


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Chris Cook
Astronomical Photography
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Gartland <mgartlan@iconn.net>
To: APML <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:44 PM
Subject: [APML] New Rosette Picture, with 4 Year Old PPF


>I have gotten my first new pictures thru the glass in close to 2 years.
>I finished the Rosette series and ran thru a processing stream. I shot
>over 25 negatives, 16 had
>good data, and 6 to 8 had varying degrees of useability.
>
>When looking at this shot, please remember this roll of PPF400 was close
>to 2 years beyond expiration when I started shooting with it in
>December, and kept in my basement desk, which is dry, but not
>necessarily cool. I left the image a little large, please be patient.
>
>http://members.iconn.net/~mgartlan/NGC2237new1.htm
>
>I also would like to comment on a possible recipe for processing,
>especially for those of us that have to keep our exposures to less then
>60 min.....what the recipte is this....take many many negatives.....goal
>is to get 8 good negatives...stack them as follows:
>
>1. 8 to 4 using Blend or Filter mode
>2. Resulting 4 to 2 using Add
>3. Resulting 2 to 1 using Blend or Filter
>
>I followed the above recipe and it about liquified the core region as
>far as grain reduction, with the intermediate Add step blowing out the
>saturation, without having to do it with processing. Most of my
>processing was in getting the mis-framed images stacked together and
>then equilizing out the mosaic artifacts. I Did Not use Neat Image,
>BGSmooth  any NR except for one pass of the Chris Cook manual method.
>
>All comments are appreciated!
>
>--
>Have a Nice Day!
>m
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>Email:   mgartlan@iconn.net
>
>Astro Web Site:   http://members.iconn.net/mgartlan/Index.html
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