RE: [APML] Another M42 on film

["Jeff Ball" <jeffball@zoominternet.net>]

Hello Steve,
Nice shot.  You may want to increase the green and just a little blue in the
image as it is a little too red overall.  You may want to play with some of
Picture Window Pro or Adobe Photoshop Elements Antivignetting (or gradient
adjusments) just to bring up the evenness in the field illumination.  See if
you have some good unstretched data of the trapezium and use Jerry
Lodriguss' method for masking the bright core of M42.  This image may take a
little more sharpening as well.  Keep up  the good work.  Histogram looks
good in that it is not clipped.

Jeff Ball
www.astro-photography.com

-----Original Message-----
From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
[mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:51 PM
To: astro-photo@seds.org
Subject: [APML] Another M42 on film


Hi Group,

I thought that I would add to the M42 list.  Here's my
shot from a few nights ago during a crystal clear,
cold night in New England:

http://www.erols.com/cannistra/m42.jpg

This represents a composite of 3 exposures (45', 50',
60') taken at f5 through the LX90 using the Orion
Broadband filter, autoguided with the 208xt.  Film is
Kodak RG400 Select series.

Comments appreciated (especially if you can offer
suggestions for improvement)!

Thanks

Steve Cannistra

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