Hello everyone,

Here is my latest shot from this past weekend.  It's the North American Nebula.  43 minutes on Kodak Elite Chrome 200 with a Pentax K1000 camera.  I shot through a Borg 77ED refractor @ f5.5 and autoguided my LXD 75 mount with a DSI Pro through a Borg 45ED.  Please click on the image below for a larger version



I also have an even larger version here:

1280 x 858

Film is NOT dead :)  I created a synthetic luminance layer from the R channel in the image which allowed me to retain the star colors which are often lost in both film and digital images of this region. 

cameran

Awesome shot redvis, very nice work indeed. 

VERY nice job redvis!

Thanks for sharing your work with us!

Film is NOT dead :)

With a shot like that..I'll say !

great stuff

Very nice shot. You captured that whole area nicely to include the pelican nebula. Now I only wish I could get some weather that will alow me to do something. I've been wanting to see what I can get through a C80ED on that same area. The looks of things around here, by the time the weather gets clear enough it will be to late for me.

Have A Nice _________

Thanks everyone for your nice words.  I have some more film shots I'll be posting up as soon as I can process them.

I think film is a very viable choice for someone wanting a high resolution, affordable medium for astrophotography.

tkerr, I'm looking forward to your shots!!  You should be able to get the whole area of NGC7000 with the C80.  my photo is the full 35mm frame of a Borg 77ED, which has almost the same amount of aperture.  I used a 0.85x focal reducer as well getting my focal length down to 425mm.

Cameran

i agree, film is far from dead, you got a terrific image here- a proline-processor would make it shine with the best, lotta detail, matter of fact its better then those LX webcams out running around today-- i wanna post an older link that helped me decide what film to use on different DSO- maybe you already seen it

http://www.astro-pat.com/OtherAstro/astro_film_tests.html

BTW, id post a couple fiom images myself, but i never could figure out how to do it on this forum and gave up trying- LOL

 

tasco-60mm wrote:

i agree, film is far from dead, you got a terrific image here- a proline-processor would make it shine with the best, lotta detail, matter of fact its better then those LX webcams out running around today-- i wanna post an older link that helped me decide what film to use on different DSO- maybe you already seen it http://www.astro-pat.com/OtherAstro/astro_film_tests.html BTW, id post a couple fiom images myself, but i never could figure out how to do it on this forum and gave up trying- LOL

It's easy as long as you already have a host site for your images. If you use someplace such as imageshack or photbucket then all you need to do is copy and paste the url for forums into the body of your message.  They provide the links just as you need them for either forums or web sites. .
If you have your own web site and want to hotlink to the images then you just need to use the BBCode for posting images, which is IMG.
all BBCodes are bracketted using the square left and right brackets. [] 
at the begining of the URL to the image location you would use IMG within the brackets. Then at the end of the URL you would use /IMG within brackets. No spaces between the BBCodes and the URL

Here is an example minus the first(left) bracket at the beginning of the link and minus the end(right) bracket at the end so you can see how it is done.

IMG]http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i39/Tim_Kerr/supernova.jpg[/IMG

With the bracket at the beginning and end this is what you would get.

Click quote as if you were going to quote the text of my message here and you will see exactly how it is done.

astronomy.com forums resizes the images automatically to fit the window better. If you want to see the full size image just click you mouse on the image.

If you use Windows IE, I believe you can also attach it as a file attachment to your meessage using the create link icon in the tool bar. You still need a host website.

Have A Nice __________