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Re: [APML] A long time lurker - Finally sharing some of my astrophotos...



First of all Michael, that's some nice work, and it's good to see someone else using 100 and 400F!
 
As Roland and others have mentioned, the blue "ghosts" do look puzzling, especially when shooting at f/10. Were you using a filter? These "ghosts" appear on all your Fuji 100F and 400F shots, and also on your M17 shot on E200. They really don't look like they are radial in nature, especially in the M17 shot.
 
I did some shooting with Sean Walker's C9.25 @f/10 earlier this summer on Fuji 400F, using a Lumicon Newtonian Easy Guider. I did not see this ghost problem. For an example I just temporarily posted a full 35mm frame jpg from a 90min shot of M27 (taken with an IDAS filter and unfortunately somewhat underexposed) at: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jeboud/temp.htm
 
There is some blue noticeable to the outside of the brighter stars towards the edge of the field due to the scope's coma, and a guest satellite <g>. My focus point was about 1/8 of the field from center.
 
 
John Boudreau
jeboud@mediaone.net
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jeboud/astro.htm
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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [APML] A long time lurker - Finally sharing some of my astrophotos...

In a message dated 10/8/2001 10:11:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mgreger@dashmail.net writes:


I am most
proud of some of my more recent images taken at the 2001 Oregon Star
Party:
http://rc1s3p9.dashmail.net/~mgreger/astro/gallery/Deepsky/Messier/M27/M27-2350mm/index.html


I would be interested to know what is the cause of the faint blue ghost images of the stars on the periphery of the image. You have listed that it is a prime focus shot. I would have thought that it might be due to some telecompressor optic or field flattener glass just before the film plane.

Roland Christen