RE: [APML] False color NEAT

["Stan Richard" <stanrichard@hotmail.com>]

Chris, whoa, that's a wild shot.



Stan Richard
Events in the Night Sky
www.nightskyevents.com





>From: "Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
>To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Subject: [APML] False color NEAT
>Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 11:28:43 -0400
>
>Hi all -
>
>Here's the last shot from CA.  I know everyone is probably bored out of
>their minds when it comes to comet shots, but here's one more just to
>torture you... :-)
>
>I was having a very hard time processing this pic since the neg was
>underexposed.  I could get the coma looking good but the faint ion tail
>extensions just were not showing up.  So, I decided to convert it to a 
>false
>color image using the solarize function in PS.....then applied some curves
>and wow....all the sudden the ion tail jumped out.  Multiple streamers 
>going
>off the frame.
>
>URL:  http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/neat-051304.html
>
>I think it definitely works.  Not your usual comet shot.
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>Chris
>
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