From: Kurt Friedrich (kurt_friedrich_at_antispamdomain.not)
Date: Sat Nov 29 2003 - 01:26:37 EST
wonderful!
Kurt
--- muzzlefish <markh_.at._tds.net> wrote:
> This was a 2-night affair with good transparency
> both nights.
>
> It was taken with a Takahashi FSQ-106 at F5 & F8 and
> a Canon 10D at
> ISO 1600 piggybacked on a pier mounted 12" LX200
> located at Yanna
> Research Station the dark sky site of the Madison
> Astronomical
> Society.
>
> It consisted of 20-4min exposures at F5,15-5min
> exposures at F8 and 6
> Median combined darks. The 15-F5 exposures were
> untracked and the F8
> images were tracked with a STV Deluxe.
>
> All F5 images were converted, calibrated (median),
> aligned and
> combined (averaged) and initially stretched using
> Digital
> Development. A mask was then used to brighten the
> red outlying
> regions and blurred and added to the original image,
> all done in
> Images Plus. The list goes on…
>
> The F8 images were converted, calibrated (median),
> aligned and
> combined (averaged) and initially stretched using
> Digital Development
> resized in Photoshop before combining them to the F5
> images with a
> mask.
>
> This image took 3-4 days to process to get the
> result I was looking
> for. Allot of experimenting with different filters,
> stretches and
> sharpening techniques.
>
> All in all I was very pleased with the result.
> http://btlguce.digitalastro.net/latest.htm
>
> Comments welcome!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Hanson
>
>
>
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