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Posts Made By: John Krawczyk

February 9, 2005 03:25 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

NGC 1977

Posted By John Krawczyk

Sweet. The detail at that image scale it great!

February 9, 2005 03:27 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M81-82 region

Posted By John Krawczyk

Wow. Incredibly sharp image. M82 is really detailed even in the small JPG you've posted here. Congrats on a great image.


February 11, 2005 05:25 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M42 and M43 close-up

Posted By John Krawczyk

Thats just a fabulous image. Thanks for sharing it.

February 18, 2005 04:03 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn with the Atik camera

Posted By John Krawczyk

Great image Paul!

February 22, 2005 04:27 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Nikon D70, tips-hints, anyone?

Posted By John Krawczyk

Congrats Ivan. I too have been using one for almost a year. Right up to last week when i broke it doing the IR mod. I love it so much i ordered a new body and will be picking it up this week. When i get the old one back from Nikon Repair, i'll go ahead an try the mod again. But i'll be a little less hamfisted about it next time.

Gregs tips are right on. I have mixed feelings on the in-camera NR. I shoot darks and flats quite regularly. I'm currently buiding up a nice library of master dark frames with 10 degree differnetials.

Good luck with it.

BTW - what scope will you be using this with?

February 22, 2005 04:05 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

M1 (L+R)rgb

Posted By John Krawczyk

Hi Larry,

thats a very nice M1 shot. The image scale is very nice too.

I have a Paintshop question for you. After you do the RGB combine (and i assume its with TIFF and not FITS) do you use the Color Channel Mixer tool to adjust the RGB weighting? If you do, how to you arrive at your optimum settings?


February 22, 2005 04:12 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Orion and Running Man

Posted By John Krawczyk

Tyler

Thats a great looking image. You really have applied the principle of practice make perfect. This is your best M42 posting yet. Is your DSLR modified?

February 28, 2005 04:29 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn on Feb 24 and 25

Posted By John Krawczyk

Looking good Paul. Have you considered an SBIG CFW8? They pop up here on amart quite a bit. I cant think of a reason that it wouldnt work. I use the ATIK filter drawers and holder. They do the job quite well.

March 1, 2005 09:59 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Copernicus-Stadius-Eratosthenes Mosaic

Posted By John Krawczyk

Thats nothing short of amazing. What is the size of the smallest resolved feature?

March 2, 2005 02:59 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn 3/1/2005

Posted By John Krawczyk

Good job.

Much much better than my first and 2nd attempts at Saturn.

I cant say that i've run into your problem. You might want to try it with the Automatic setting turned off.