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Re: [APML] Bill Fletcher's Tri-color work(was 23a filter)



Thanks again Michael! Now I'll have to look in my attic to see
if I can dig up that S+T issue.

Scott

Preston Scott Justis
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:13:10 -0700 Michael Stecker
<mstecker@earthlink.net> writes:
>
>Hello Scott:
>      We all owe a lot to Bill Fletcher.  He was a pioneer in
>film-digital astrophotography (not just tricolor).   I believe he
>perfected his process in 1992 or perhaps 1993, which was years before
>anyone on this list was doing such work.  He did this with Photoshop 
>2.5
>(no layers) which made it vastly more difficult than it is today.  He
>spoke to Adobe and they thought his process at the time was 
>impossible.
>Even with this discouragement he was able to develop a process that 
>works
>quite well.  In the November, 1994 Sky and Telescope on page 98 he 
>wrote
>an article on his technique.  <snip>

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