Re: [APML] Rising Emu

["Volker Wendel" <volker@spiegelteam.de>]

Hi Axel,

this is a great shot! How did you get the background color so neutral?

Another question (because I´m in Namibia in July too): how do you plan such
mosaic shots? Do you look for the center of the area for every shot and how
much do you overlap the frames?

Danke!

Volker
www.spiegelteam.de




> Hi all,
>
> Matt BenDaniel's splendid southern hemisphere pictures got me into
> processing another one of the mosaic images from my last trip to
> Namibia/South Africa:
>
>
http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/photo.cgi?Image=images/rising_emu
>
> This one is a 4-frame mosaic of the Milky Way from Carina through
> Scorpius. Notice the dark nebulae, which are known to the Australian
> aborigines as "the Emu". I oriented the image such that it resembles
> the view of the March/April evening sky, where the Emu rises straight from
> the south-eastern horizon.
>
> Comments, suggestions, etc. are always welcome.
>
> Clear skies,
>
> Axel
>
>
>
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