Re: [APML] Leonid Radiant Composite Posted

[Grant <GB1029@inter-linc.net>]

Jon,

That is awesome!  I noticed a somewhat elongated star
near the center of the radiant.  Do you think this could
be a near straight on meteor?  Or maybe just a double star?
Good shootin'!

Grant

At 02:21 PM 11/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
>This one's a composite of 4 10-minute shots on NHG-II 120 film taken with a
>105mm f/2.4 lens wide open on a Pentax 6x7.  I experimented quite a bit with
>anti-vignetting on the base shot, and masked off the meteors from the
>subsequent frames before performing "Add" composites in PW - using only the
>masked meteors in the overlay.  I'm not sure I like the color balance after
>all of this, but as a first attempt at this sort of thing, I'm pretty happy
>with it.  There are about 30 bright meteors in here.
>http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/leonid_radiant.htm
>
>Comments welcome as always.


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