Re: [APML] New image: The Crescent Nebula

["Chris Schur" <cschur@cybertrails.com>]

Juan,  one of the deepest prime film shots of the crescent, also called the
"dividing cell nebula".  Im impressed with your prowess at manual guiding -
must be quite a nice mount you have.



Chris
Astrophotograpy site: http://www.PSIAZ.com/schur/astro/index.html

----- Original Message -----
From: Juan Conejero <skycad@ctv.es>
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 6:05 PM
Subject: [APML] New image: The Crescent Nebula


> Hi all,
>
> Our last production is an integration of four 1-hour shots. It's NGC 6888
> on E200 through our LX200 12" + IDAS LPS. As usual, you can see it at two
> resolutions:
>
> 800x800:
> http://www.pleiades-astrophoto.com/gallery/LX20012.n6888.en.html
>
> 1024x1024:
> http://www.pleiades-astrophoto.com/gallery/LX20012.n6888.1024.en.html
>
> This image is the "first-light" of our new image processing software
> project, in which we have been working hard during some months (and many,
> many more that are to come). So far we call this monster PixInsight, but
> this name may well be changed. The news with this image are mainly related
> to noise reduction, which has been done entirely through wavelets
processing.
>
> We continue very happy with our IDAS LPS. Besides wonderful light
pollution
> suppression, an additional effect of this filter is due to its cutoff at
> about 420 nm. It acts like a minus violet filter, which is fine since it
> renders Halpha truly red, unpolluted by UV.
>
> Comments welcome,
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