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Posts Made By: Gianluca Valentini

July 13, 2006 11:46 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Two Thirds of the Triade

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hello Wes,
the processing of your images is a true pleasure to the eyes! The image, needless to say, it'a true beauty. Thanks for posting it.

Ciao Wes
Luca

July 17, 2006 03:55 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Big south pole!

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hey Mike: What an image shocked

I don't think I could ever count so many craterlets inside Clavius before today!

It is truly an outstanding image, full of detail everywhere you look and so smoothly processed.

Thanks for showing it to us Mike.

Ciao
Luca

July 19, 2006 03:18 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Julius Caesar-Boscovich/Rima Ariadaeus

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Very, very nice Wes! Great detail and soft processing as usual.

Ciao
Luca

July 19, 2006 03:30 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Jupiter on 7/16/2006

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hello James.

Great last name!! Hope it will bring you luck with the seeing grin

However, I hope you don't mind but I took the liberty to tweak the colors of your image a little bit. I don't know if anyone else can confirm, but your image presented a great blue dominant (the image IS blue!). So I attach the processing I did in which I just tweaked the color balance in PS and then use the despeckle function in PS to remove some of the grainy look.
Hope you like it.

Ciao James

Luca

July 29, 2006 06:06 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

The Sun

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Hello Ralph and congrats on the beautiful full disk image. Let's hope the sun will still give us something to work on wink and soon sad
It seems that the modified BF15 is working alright!

Ciao
Luca

August 20, 2006 12:43 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Bay of Rainbows!!

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Absolutely awesome!!
Left me almost speechless 8O

Ciao Mike

Luca

August 20, 2006 12:55 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Plato (from a steady night)

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
And it sure is nice to see again your images Alan! I really like this Plato a lot. Really incredible the amount of craterlets captured on Plato's floor.

Ciao Alan

Luca

August 20, 2006 10:52 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Postcard from the Edge

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Breathtaking view and lovely and appropriate quote wink
I'm anxious to see all the images that you took that night.
Congratulations Alan.

Luca

August 21, 2006 02:03 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Apollo Landing sites!

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Another beauty Mike!

Thanks for posting it with the additional info of the landing sites. Apollo 14 must have had a much tougher landing! I wonder if they landed in the much more "rocky" area by mistake or by decision, even if, in the latter hypothesis, I couldn't see the reasons.

Ciao Mike

Luca

August 25, 2006 02:38 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Delambre-Rima Hypatia 07-15-06

Posted By Gianluca Valentini
Very, very beatiful image Wes!
The image scale is incredibly small: which focal length did you attain with the 4X Powermate and the mighty Starmaster?

Please, if you find some time, read my post on Nyquist, Dawes, etc. I'd really like to have your opinion. It is a bit long, but it could be of interest to you, since we use the same camera.

Ciao Wes

Luca

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