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Re: [APML] M45 help

Hi Scott.
I downloaded your M45 unprocessed file and played with it a bit. I did some anti-vignetting and tried some color balancing with levels and curves. What I ended up with wasn't all that far from what you got except perhaps a bit lighter on the background. One thing I did notice was some "funny" color on the background; some I'm not used to seeing. Sort of red and I had to add blue to balance it but I'm like you, I couldn't get a result I was happy with. I have not worked much with RG200 and it may be that I just don't have a good handle on how to do the basic adjustments for it. Did you purge with N2? How damp was your night? I've found that for hypered LE400 it certainly helps on the color balance to N2 purge on all but the driest nights. This could be a problem and it might be that hypered RG200 might react in a similar fashion.
Bobby Middleton
http://www.koyote.com/users/bobm/astro2.htm
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Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: RE: [APML] M45 help

The link now has both the unprocessed and processed version. Larger and less compressed.

http://www.creatorsview.com/Pages/demo.html

 

Scott

 

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From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org] On Behalf Of Mike Connors
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:03 PM
To: astro-photo@seds.org
Subject: Re: [APML] M45 help

 

Scott,

 

Do you have a larger, unprocessed file to look at?   

 

Mike Connors

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Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:08 AM

Subject: [APML] M45 help

 

This was taken 2 weeks ago during the new moon. I can’t seem to get the background color right with out loosing a lot of the nebulosity and severely clipping the histogram. I wish I had exposed longer, but this was the first actual shot taken with the NP101 and I wasn’t sure how long I could expose. Any suggestions?

http://www.creatorsview.com/Pages/demo.html

 

Thanks,

 

Scott Hammonds