RE: [APML] Antares/M4/Rho area

["Jeff Ball" <jeffball@zoominternet.net>]

Hello Don,
Looks real good.  It is hard to do much with the cores of the globs in
that shot.  I tried masking on my shots and I just couldn't get the
transition to look right from the highlights to the shadows.  It can
perhaps be done, but I didn't have the patience for it.  I was surprised
as to how bright this entire area is on my 300mm lens shot.  I also like
the Techpan shot by Garth Buckles

http://www.sciencecenter.net/hutech/gallery/html/h595597.htm

This is a good guide on how bright the background may need to be.  You
might be able to go with a brighter background and reduce some of the
noise in the shadows.  Keep us posted on this.  Thanks for sharing.

Jeff Ball
www.astro-photography.com

-----Original Message-----
From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]
On Behalf Of Don Spencer
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:15 PM
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
Subject: [APML] Antares/M4/Rho area

Hi All,
            WHEW! After a couple of weeks of tweaking and adjusting,
tweaking and adjusting, I finally got a (somewhat) respectable image of
this very difficult region. My thanks go out to Jim Janusz for
introducing me to BGsmooth. Even thought it kinda butchered the brighter
stars and the core of M4, I couldn't get the noise down nearly as much
in SGBNR.
http://members.cox.net/ecdon/antaresrho.html
Thanks,
Don Spencer



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