Re: [APML] Back to a film image-Rho Ophiuchus

["Stuart Heggie" <Stuart.J.Heggie@sympatico.ca>]

John, if that image was as messy as you described then this is pretty close
to a miracle - what a super shot and so nicely processed!

Stuart
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Laborde" <jlaborde@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:04 AM
Subject: [APML] Back to a film image-Rho Ophiuchus


> Here is an image or rather two images in a two frame mosaic of Rho
> Ophiuchus area I took last year. I didn't take it very far in the
> processing except to scan the film. The scanned images were quit noisy
> and the film had a ton of dust bunnies and hairs from poor handling at
> the film lab. I was just going to scrap these shots Since then I have
> learned a lot about noise control and image processing in general so I
> decided just a few days ago to complete the processing started a year ago.
>
> The image is a mosaic of 2 120- E200 pushed 1 stop, scanned at 4000 dpi
> on a PrintScan 120. All processing was done in Photoshop CS and passed
> through the demo version of  Noise Ninja for noise reduction.
>
> Just a side note, I think Noise Ninja works much better that Neat Image
> which I have been using for about a year.
>
> Here's the image.
> http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=728&UserID=67
>
> comment welcome
>
>
> John Laborde
>
>
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