Re: [APML] A few shots from last month

[George Anderson <georgea@cam.org>]

Hi John

I actually dropped the saturation from what I had on the scan, sort of a
personal preference but as you say it does jump to life when the
saturation is brought up by 50% or more.
If you had been able to fix the trailed image you would be putting
Losmandy and the other mount manufacturers out of busisness and have a
full time business on your own.  :^)
There were some guys playing around with scanner based drift cams a few
years back where they didn't use a mount and just let the sky drift by
the scope and then correct the image later on. I think the big hurdle
was the lack of sensitivity of the scanner sensors and the plethora of
web cam imagers that came out afterwards.

George

Clear skies and good health

John Mirtle wrote:
> 
> Not bad George!
>         I did find that 2 images really benefited from a bit of tweaking.
> While the "unsaturated" look of Cygnus is kind of neat, it really came to
> life by cranking up the saturation. A lot. It brings out a nice bluish milky
> way - nice image! Your central milky way is really strong in the reds. By
> messing around with levels and curves, a very nice colour balance was
> possible, even on the jpeg. Couldn't fix your trailed image in Photoshop
> though!
> 
> John Mirtle
> Calgary, Ab. Canada
>
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