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Re: [APML] Winter Hexagon Mosaic



Hi Axel,

Wonderful image!  The color balance is perfect.

This is just about the best picture of the winter milky way star clouds I 
have ever seen.

Jerry



At 10:08 AM 3/16/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>here is another of my recent southern Arizona pictures. Eight individual
>images taken with a 50 mm lens on Kodak E200 were combined into a
>6000x7000 pixel mosaic showing the entire winter hexagon. Here is a
>down-scaled view:
>
>http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/images/winter_hexagon.html
>
>Matching the colors in all eight frames was quite a challenge, especially
>because two images (covering the bottom part of the mosaic) suffered a bit
>from increased skyglow due to the approaching moonrise.
>
>The very faint red filament near the right edge is part of the
>Orion-Eridanus bubble.
>
>Comments welcome.
>
>Clear skies,
>
>Axel
>
>
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>Axel Mellinger  <http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/astrophot.html>
>
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