Re: [APML] New Planetary Nebula Film Images

["John Boudreau" <jeboud@attbi.com>]

> John very nice M57! Could imagine how good it would be if you wouldn't
have
> fallen asleep and had the other exposure!

Thanks, Jim.

This film is so fine grained that while I would have liked to stack 2 or
more exposures, just one good exposure processes out pretty good by itself.
I'm happy with it. But I _do_ need to set an alarm for myself  <g>.

John Boudreau
jeboud@attbi.com
http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/astro.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Ives" <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] New Planetary Nebula Film Images


> John very nice M57! Could imagine how good it would be if you wouldn't
have
> fallen asleep and had the other exposure!
>
> Jim Ives
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Boudreau" <jeboud@attbi.com>
> To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 9:00 PM
> Subject: [APML] New Planetary Nebula Film Images
>
>
> > Finally, I have some recent images!
> >
> > I shot M57 for 90 minutes back in June, and recently attempted to get
some
> > additional frames to combine with the June shot. But operator error has
> kept
> > me from getting any more M57 shots--- I've fallen asleep only to wake up
> to
> > sunrise with the shutter still open <G>, and recently an exposure that
was
> > timed
> > as 90 minutes under a very good sky inexplicably looks like a 30 minute
> > exposure. Maybe the cable release lock failed, but I don't recall that
> > happening
> > in the 10 years or so I've had this cable. First time for everything , I
> > guess.  ;o(
> >
> > However my single June M57 exposure processed out very well. It beats my
> old
> > Provia 100F shot of it taken last year. The new M57 image is at:
> > http://home.attbi.com/~jeboud/m57.htm






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