Re: [APML] R200SS first light and new website ...

["John C. Mirtle" <spampit@shaw.ca>]

    Aha! So you are the guy who took the astrophoto.ca domain name! I tried
to register it about 1.5 years ago and someone beat me to it!
    Looks like you are off to a good start Philippe, good images and a
nicely laid out web site. I am a bit puzzled by your M45 shot though. You
appear to have lots of density in the nebula, but not a lot of structure.
Compare to my old picture which isn't as dense, but shows more fine detail.
http://members.shaw.ca/jmirtle/m45.htm I know that my scope has more focal
length, but I am thinking that maybe you applied a bit too much smoothing?
And manually guided! Now I know that there are at least 2 people in Canada
who guide by hand. :-)

John (cold hand) Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada
http://members.shaw.ca/jmirtle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philippe Chretien" <junk1@gcesoft.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 2:14 PM
Subject: [APML] R200SS first light and new website ...


> Hi all,
>
> In fact, this isn't really the first light ... I should say the first
well-tracked and not too badly  focused light I got with this
> new
> scope. It took me four attempts to finally get a setup I am happy with.
Both pictures are manually guided and shot on Kodak E200
> film. The seeing was average and the temperature -10C.
> "http://www.astrophoto.ca/en/new.html";
>
> This is what the scope looks like after a night at -10C with a lot of
frost in the air!
> "http://www.astrophoto.ca/en/equipment/scope1.html";
>
> Comments welcomed ...
>
> Ciao,
>
> Philippe Chrétien
> http://www.astrophoto.ca

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