Re: [APML] Scorpius and clouds

[Stuart Heggie <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

Carlos, the image is interesting - the band of yellow is the cloud on
the horizon I assume. I think the definition in the central part of the
milky way is excellent. Some scratches on the image could easily be
repaired with the stamp tool in Photoshop.
Stuart

carlos milovic wrote:

 >
 > Hi! =)
 > Here is my latest wide field astrophoto:
 > http://astro.astrophoto.vze.com/sco-nubes5.jpg
 > (about 1Mb...)
 > The tech-data:
 > Object: Scorpius (and some intruder clouds)
 > Site: Daniel Verschatse's Observatory, Los Andes, Chile
 > Date: 07/26/03
 > Exp. Time: 13m
 > Camera: Canon F1
 > Lenses: Canon FD 50mm f/1.4
 > F/stop: 4.0
 > Film: Kodak E200 (+2steps)
 > Guiding: Manual
 > Mount: Advanced Series CG-5
 > Comments: Scorpius was very low... and in the middle of the exposure
 > all the sky went cloudy, and i had to close the shutter. Seeing and
 > transparency very poor. The image is horizont up, to reveal in a more
 > familiar way the constelation.
 > The Digital Treatment:
 > Scanned with Polaroid SS35 at 2700ppi
 > Cropped and some dust erased with Photoshop.
 > Levels, Curves, SMI, Wavelets Noise Reduction, etc. using PixInsight
 > beta.
 > A soft USM (not the "real") applied with Photoshop, and saved as jpeg.
 >
 > I hope you'll like it. =)
 >
 > Regards,
 > Carlos Milovic F.
 > -------------------
 > Astro & Photo - CMF
 > http://www.astrophoto.vze.com
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