Re: [APML] The Seven Sisters - a new deep-sky image!

["Stuart Heggie" <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

Chris - VERY nice indeed! The background sky is really dark - with 4x50 min, if you lighten the background do you find more
nebulosity? Not sure it would hurt the image to try. Still, something for me to aspire to imitate!

Stuart Heggie
http://www3.sympatico.ca/stuart.j.heggie/Stuart.J.Heggie/
Flesherton, Ontario, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:42 PM
Subject: [APML] The Seven Sisters - a new deep-sky image!


> Hi all -
>
> Finally, a new deep-sky image.  Its been a while. :-)
>
> I completed this image of M45 during the last week of December.  I had a
> really clear night and managed to crank off four 50-minute exposures on
> Provia 400F, pushed +1.  Getting the high S/N with a four image stack was a
> must in my mag 6.2 skies to try and bring out the fainter nebulosity that
> fills the region.
>
> http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/m45-fs102.html
>
> The data really needed to be dug/caressed out, and in doing so, the original
> super smooth raw blended image needed a touch of SGBNR at the very end.
> I was pleased to discover that I recorded the fainter reddish/magenta
> nebulosity that mixes in with the Merope Nebula.
>
> Comments always welcome.
>
> Chris
>
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