Re: [APML] Seagull Nebula (IC 2177)

[Dean Jacobsen <deanjacobsen@earthlink.net>]

Very nice Axel.  I was just out to the Alamo Campground at the Organ Pipe 
Cactus Nat. Monument two weeks ago.  Unfortunately it was at the start of 
the Santa Ana winds that resulted in all of the firestorms here in the 
Southern California area.

Best,

Dean Jacobsen
www.astrophoto.net

At 01:33 PM 11/9/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>After a very busy year I finally I got around to process a Seagull Nebula
>mosaic from my trip to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument last winter
>(quite a long time ago!).
>
>Three days after an extremely windy night during which I did my film test
>shots
>(http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/Filmtest_IC2177/Filmtest_IC2177.html 
>)
>I photographed the same region again, this time under much more favorable
>conditions. A total of 3 images on Kodak PJ400 were combined into a
>stack/mosaic:
>
>http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/photo.cgi?Image=images/IC2177
>
>Removing vignetting was quite tough, since the nebulosity filled a large
>part of the individual images, which made it very difficult to generate
>a good 'sky flat' image.
>Any comments are of course welcome.
>
>Clear skies,
>
>Axel
>
>
>P.S. [OT] Recently I started some mosaic work on the "dark side".
>For those interested there is a link in the 'What's new' section on my
>astrophotography homepage.
>
>P.P.S No lunar eclipse photos; the fog rolled in just in time for the
>umbral phase. I got a glimpse of totality through some thinner
>patches of fog.
>
>
>--
>Axel Mellinger  <http://canopus.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~axm/astrophot.html>
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