Re: [APML] Rho Ophiuchus Region

["Eric Z. Beard" <ericzbeard@yahoo.com>]

Great shot, Jason!  I'm impressed with the manual tracking.  I love the rho oph
area.  

The image looks a bit green to me around the edges.

EZB

--- "Lane, Jason R" <jason.lane@navy.mil> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I was working on this region the past couple of weeks and here are the
> results of my efforts so far.  I'm using my new (for me) Zuiko 200mm lens,
> and actually shot this image wide open at f/4.  I had planned to frame it a
> little better to get more of the dark nebula coming off to the left, but the
> camera ball mount that I was going to use had the wrong thread size and so
> the camera had to be mounted directly to the scope.  This is a 30 minute
> manually guided shot on E200 at 200mm f/4.  I am glad to see that the stars
> are pinpoint all the way to the corners...I like this lens.  
> 
> http://www1.iwvisp.com/opticman/astroimages/Rho%20Ophiuchus%20Region.html
> 
> Is it just me or is this area just really tough to photograph?  This is 1 of
> 5 shots that I took..the other 4 weren't useable for one reason or another. 
> I also can't seem to bring the colors out while preserving the smokey look of
> the dark nebula.  I'm going to try again tonight on some of the Konica
> Centuria film that I bought down at OPT this weekend (thanks, Chriss!).
> 
> Enjoy!
> Jason
> _______________________________________________
> Astro-Photo mailing list
> Astro-Photo@seds.org
> http://seds.org/mailman/listinfo/astro-photo
> 


=====
Eric Z. Beard
http://www.honeydewphoto.com/eric
_______________________________________________
Astro-Photo mailing list
Astro-Photo@seds.org
http://seds.org/mailman/listinfo/astro-photo