[APML] Cats paw on the tail of the scorpion

["ice" <ice@houston.rr.com>]

With all the bad weather here in South Texas lately, the only thing to do is
processing.  Of which I need lots of practice.  Thought I try fooling around
with some of my not so well tracked or guided shots.

I shot this two years ago at TSP.  This was my first shot with a lens >50mm.  I
was excited when I first looked at the scan at the lab without a loupe.  But,
when I got home the scan showed some trailing.  I think it was guiding and not
field rotation as the elongation of the stars appeared East-West and linear on
the top and bottom of the frame.

Just a few details as I would have to find the old logbook...
OM1, 200mm, E200, piggybacked on an LX200 w/ wedge.

http://home.houston.rr.com/lencasady/catspaw.jpg

There was also some very obvious vingetting and noise I tried to remove.  Does
it look way too soft?

How are the colors?  On this note, I found that my colors looked different at
home than they did when viewing from work.  Found that the Nvidia video driver
had a setting for "Digital Vibrance" turned on.  I think it basically ups the
saturation and brightness of the screen.  Turned it off and then processed.

Comments?

Thanks
Len

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