Re: [APML] Cocoon Nebula

[Mikkel Steine <mikkel@messier45.com>]

Hi Matt,

> http://people.ne.mediaone.net/mbendaniel1/gallery/astro/cocoon.html

Beautiful image! You really brought out the dark nebulae and - well - a LOT of
stars. To me the star in the top of the frame and the nebula seems a bit too
blue. I know the star is supposed to be blue, but the blue halo around it seems
too much. Might is be because blue light is shattered more than the other
wavelengths? The nebula also has more blue to it than previous images I've seen
of the Cocoon. What is the right color balance... that has been covered in
lengthy discussions before.

I have one more comment. When scaling down images of very high resolution with a
great amount of point sources like this image it seems the anti-aliasing
procedures in Photoshop brings out the fainter stars too much. The faint stars
are bloated so they look brighter than they are in the original. I realize that
bicubic resampling is the best Photoshop can offer, or is it? Is there a
technique around this "problem"? Although lots of stars often look very nice,
it's also a bit unrealistic when you compare m8 and m11 stars in the image. They
almost have the same size in the image! I realize the size of the pixels is the
problem here, but what I am asking is if there is a way to remedy this before
publishing on the Internet?

Best regards,                              mailto:mikkel@messier45.com
Mikkel Steine                                     http://Messier45.com
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