Re: [APML]: Surface brightness

[Jerry Lodriguss <jml@astropix.com>]

>> It would seem that this will be a very difficult task for most extended
>> objects as their surface brightness varies, somtimes quite irregularly,
>> especially for nebulae.  So really, there is no one perfect exposure time
>> for these objects. If you want the faintest stuff, you expose to the sky
>> fog limit at the darkest site you can find.
>
>Truth! But if it were easy we could leave it for others to take care 
>of!


Yes, if it was easy, anybody could do it. <G>

That's why they pay us the big bucks. <G>

Hey, they pay us to make pictures, not excuses! <G>




>If anyone knows of any useful references for being able to use the magnitude 
>and the area of an object to derive the surface brightness I would 
>appreciate hearing about it!



I would think this stuff is in the professional literature, don't you have
access to it at Mt. Wilson?


Jerry