RE: [APML] Horse Head and Flame Nebula

["Andy Forsberg" <CS-Imaging@prodigy.net>]

Hi Bert,

The image was scanned by a commercial drum scanner, medium format film, to
get it to digital format.  Then I did nothing more than to crop it down to
the important stuff and set the histogram contrast to brighten up the film
image. The original image was about 3 degrees wide. So the image is what
came off the scanner plus a little cropping. The AP 155 with medium format
film and field flatener gives quite a wide field of view.

Thanks for your comments.

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
Behalf Of Bert Katzung
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:13 PM
To: astro-photo@seds.org
Subject: Re: [APML] Horse Head and Flame Nebula


Hi Andy:
That's a very nice shot of the Horsehead and Flame! As far as processing is
concerned, I think your color is great (although my take on color is not
always very accurate). The red nebulosity looks a bit grainy and could
probably benefit from more smoothing (did you do any?) with either bigsmooth
or SGBNR (both freeware, URL's on my website). The stars seem to have fuzzy
halos --- was there mist or could it be due to the processing? Overall,
however, an excellent image!
Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@attbi.com
www.astronomy-images.com


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