[APML] Mars mania and Lunar lunacy - my latest astrophoto site update

[Taras Hnatyshyn <tarashnat@earthlink.net>]

  Fellow APMLers,
  
  I've finally got around to putting an update of my web site together. 
  It's mostly Mars and the moon taken with my iBot and ToUcam through 
  my 8" classic LX200 and ETX125. 
 
  I also got a few wide-field astrophotos taken with my Hasselblad in 
  this update. I'm getting better at processing the images, but I still have
  some ways to go.

  I am happy with the removal of the horizon glow in my Mars, Uranus, and
  Neptune photo: 

  http://homepage.mac.com/tarashnat/astrophoto/MF-00083-11.html

  Though it did leave an interesting artifact on the trees in the corner of the shot.
  I masked most of it out, though.
  
  The link to the newest images is 

  http://homepage.mac.com/tarashnat/astrophoto/new.html 

  and the home page of the site is at 
 
  http://homepage.mac.com/tarashnat/astrophoto/welcome.html .

  Since I am still learning the ropes... (you gotta love flexure, or rather
  finding out what caused it) any constructive criticism is appreciated.
  I believe that many of my background skies are a bit too red (or is that
  magenta), but when I try to correct that, I usually end up with many
  green stars.
 
  This morning I saw a beautiful grouping of Jupiter, the waning crescent 
  moon and Mercury just before dawn... I pulled an all-nighter updating my 
  sight and viewing Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and the moon. I will need to 
  check my images of the moon to see if I caught Mare Orientalis, since 
  the libration was still supposed to be favorable. I was clouded or 
  fogged out on my previous three nights before the moon rose, so I wasn't 
  able to try to catch this elusive feature at a more reasonable 
  elevation.
  
  Taras

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Taras R. Hnatyshyn                             tarashnat@earthlink.net
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