[APML] Southern Milky Way 35mm wield field film shots

[belatrix <belatrix@ozemail.com.au>]

Greetings,
Inspired by all the great southern milky way images i have seen on the web
recently, i dug up some old pics of ours out of the pile, dating from early
2002, and put them on our site.

<http://www.southern-x.org/gallery-smw.html>


First shot is badly affected by field rotation and is a fairly ugly ;-) but
it shows the amazing seeing and conditions on one of the best nights we have
ever seen for seeing and conditions, ever!. It was the type of night where
you cant make out any familiar super easy asterisms in constellations like
Orion, and the sky is just about completely white with stars. So much so
that you feel disoriented and the night sky is very unfamiliar, and even
intimidating to a degree.
eta Carinae Nebula was near zenith from our location at around 36 deg south
at time. I have processed the image to bring out the red nebula, as we dont
often see red in the Fuji 800's, so it is a novelty for us. Note: this is a
very large file around 744K in size! (why you ask maybe :) couldnt help it!
plus i notice how much better a digital image can be reduced in memory size
for the web with very little loss of quality - but is the opposite situation
an for equivalent scanned print film version for the net, in my humble
opinion and experience anyway - a fact? I personally havent ever come across
being discussed on the net? can anyone explain this to me?)
 Pic cropped down to around 60% its original size from 6"x4" print scan.
Our locations elevation would of been around zero as well (could of been
below sea level for all i know, especially down there!)

Picture two is of Crux - taken the night before, a night which was no were
near as good as the eta shot night, and was even a bit foggy. Crux wasnt at
optimum elevation during shot either. The film i think was 35mm Fuji 800 CZ?
but could of been NPZ _ either of the two anyway.

Cheers
Kearn

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