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Posts Made By: Cal Sandfort

February 27, 2005 01:56 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC281

Posted By Cal Sandfort
Thanks for the comments everyone. They are nice to hear.

Cal

February 27, 2005 02:03 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Crab (M1) from Utah

Posted By Cal Sandfort
Wow! This is great, Tyler. But it's a Bonefish not a crab. Oops, wrong image, I needed to page down wink

Nice shot! - Cal

February 27, 2005 06:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

First Light: M42

Posted By Cal Sandfort
Beautiful image, Tom! It looks like a great scope/camera combination.

Cal

February 27, 2005 08:37 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Basic CCD Image Processing Questions

Posted By Cal Sandfort
Taylor, I don't use CCDOPS or CCDSOFT to process but CCDSOFT would be my choice then Photoshop. They will do what you need. To start you want to subtract the dark frame and divide the flat frame from each RAW image then align and combine in CCDSOFT. These selections are under "Image". Then save as .tiff or .fits if you have the plugin for Photoshop. Open in Photoshop and adjust the Curves and Levels until it looks right. You can sharpen (I prefer unsharp mask over sharpen) blur if needed and remove artifacts with the Clone Stamp or Healing Brush Tools if needed.

This is very basic but it should get you started and we can offer more details if you want.

Cal

February 28, 2005 03:24 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Pleiades - M45 from Utah

Posted By Cal Sandfort
This is great! You have nice color.

Cal

February 28, 2005 03:26 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Yeah....another M42. :-)

Posted By Cal Sandfort
Nice shot, Tom. You got a bit of the running man.

Cal

March 1, 2005 01:34 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M51-Just the L for Now

Posted By Cal Sandfort
This looks good, Dan. What new techniques did you try?

Nice shot - Cal

March 1, 2005 01:40 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet

Posted By Cal Sandfort
Thanks everyone for the comments. I really appreciate them.

My new, blue filter arrived today so it's cloudy and raining as expected. A flat from my light box looks perfect however so I hope to get some color frames soon.

Thanks again - Cal

March 2, 2005 04:28 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Double Cluster

Posted By Cal Sandfort
This is a pretty shot, Jim. Clusters are fun to image.

Nice job - Cal

March 3, 2005 07:40 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

My first M1

Posted By Cal Sandfort
Nice shot. Why did you use a focal reducer? To help flatten the field?

Cal

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