Re: [APML] First film results from Namibia

["Jim Ives" <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>]

Very nice guys! The M20 still looks good despite your difficulties with the
clouds..

Jim Ives
----- Original Message -----
From: "Volker Wendel" <volker@spiegelteam.de>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:34 PM
Subject: [APML] First film results from Namibia


> Hi all,
>
> after posting a lot of CCD images the past weeks here we´ve finished the
> processing of the first four film images we made with totally different
> optics during our Namibia trip. All I can say is that I´m missing some
bits
> from CCD photography to bring out the faint stuff, the grain is quickly
> visible with film <g>.
>
> One very critical image was M20. It was made between clouds and both of
the
> single exposures are made for 90 minutes instead of the 120 minutes we
> wanted to go. The slide was very dark so there is no chance to show the
> faintest parts of this nebula. I scratched the maximum information out of
> the slides so there is a bit of grain visible even if we used SGBNR for
> grain reduction.
>
> The other real hard target for us was a fisheye view of the milkyway. A
lot
> of gradients (vignetting, foggy horizon, airglow) were visible and even if
> we worked hard on it, they are not totally gone. But hey, nothing is
perfect
> :-))
>
> The other two images are parts of the milky way, the IC2948 area was shot
> with the Pentax SDUF 4"f/4, the Centaurus/Carina area was exposed with a
> 90mm Pentax 67 lens.
>
> Here is the link to the images: http://www.spiegelteam.de/namibia.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Volker and Bernd
>
> Volker Wendel
> www.spiegelteam.de
> volker@spiegelteam.de
>
>
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