Posts Made By: Floyd Blue

Ok, I know I have posted the image before, but I have been experimenting with several programs for combining of the RGBL and have another that I find to be rather pleasing. I wonder if you would all mind giving me your thoughts at to which of these photos is the better processed. This would help a lot, as I am trying hard to understand the process and the tools that I have at hand.
This image was done with CCDStack, using its color combine and processing techniques and then finished in CS2.

Well, I decided to try a better set of color filters, something besides my Meade set, which have worked well for me. But I wanted to get a balanced set with IR/UR anti-reflective coatings and a little higher throughput and bandpass. So I just bought a set of Astronomik RGB-L from a fellow Astromarter.
Not sure whether there will be a big difference, but it will eliminate using the Baader IR/UV filter that I now have on the focal reducer and I am trying to eliminate as much glass as I can as well as sources for reflection.
I have read good things about these and the graphs look great, with almost 100% throughput, so I look forward to trying them.

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/displayimage-lastup-0-0.html
I thought I would post a link to my gallery where I have the latest processing on the last image. I think I have it right finally. I used only CS2 for this one and a couple of tricks I just learned about preserving color and luminance application.
Check it out, it is the full sized image with low compression, so it is the best I can do!
Hope you like it.

You must vote your own conscience and live with that. Time will tell what is really the truth on all these issues. Obama may be a good President, maybe not, but after 4 years you will know who he is, that is for sure.
Hilary to me is not the best person for the job. I do not like her or her husband particularly, so I am not wanting her to win frankly.
McCain, is not my choice for the GOP ticket either, but those idiots keep putting in all these other idiots as possible candidates and not one of them was a person that I really agreed with on their ideas and plans.
Really, I don't care for any of the three. I wish that there was a 4th possibility actually. 8)
Heck, I wish that one of these candidates would make me feel all tingly inside, but instead they all make me feel a little queasy inside.

You know, it is all very good to try to discuss these current events. But I wonder what is more important?

It is not important what racial background the next president comes from, but it is very important what ethical background.

I do not want a president that believes in anything but equality and freedom. No, I do not want someone that wants to change America, I want someone that wants to promote America, the real America, the one our forefathers created. Nor do I want one that further degrades our personal freedoms as defined in our constitution. Rather I want someone that uphold all of the truths that were declared as self evident.

We do not need someone to help divide our country, that is being done quite well by the Rev Wrights and others. Freedom is already there for all to grasp, if they will but put out their hand and hang on to it. We do not need someone to give it to us or tell us how to find or win it, we have it!

Wars are not something that anyone wants, but at times they must be fought. I do not want another Vietnam! No I do not want the US to walk away again as we did then. If we again walk away without winning, we will be considered a very easy mark and that would be deadly to our way of life. Those that have fallen will be forgotten like all my brothers and sisters that fell in Vietnam. No, I do not want this.

We are facing some very trying times ahead and we need a strong sense of unity and a stronger leadership. The problems that are occurring in the Middle East are not going away, they are spreading around the world and will bring destruction to all that do not believe the way that those responsible feel that we should.

Are we a bad country because we lifted much of the world into the 21st century? Do all of the problems that prevail around the world fall on our shoulders? Did we cause the world to change in a terrible way or did we bring it out of the darkness and into the future?

Much of what is considered wonderful about the last 200 years has sprung from our hands. We have given so much to the world in medicine and technology as well as renewed faith in humanity, but we receive only criticism and threats for our troubles.

It is time for the USA to move forward in it own destiny and to bring a better life to our own people, freeing us from our own internal terrorists and hate mongers. We need to cleanse this land and bring all our people together regardless of race or creed or religious beliefs. This is what our founders meant to do and this is what we must do. No more them, but US, a family of Americans with only one goal, to make this country the country that our founding fathers meant for it to be. Free, prosperous above all united.

If any one steps forward that can accomplish these goals, I would walk the country roads to promote them as the next president of the United States.

If you are going to talk Global Warming, you must state compared to what period of Earth's history?
There has been much greater periods of warming than we see today, as well as much greater cooling. So, do you compare the last 100 years or the last 100,000 years when you decide what constitutes warming.

As long as we consider ourselves black or white or red or yellow, we will never be able to accept that we are all one race, the human race.
I don't want to recognize a person as a black or white person, but rather a good or a bad person. Nor do I want to equate good or bad to white or black but rather to the character of the person, not the hue if his skin.
I would rather have a good black person as a friend than 10 bad white people. I would rather live in a diversified neighborhood than an all segregated community.
When I see a smile I do not look to see what color the face is, but how revealing the smile.

I say this with all honesty, I hope the Democrats win. Then I want to see them turn the country around and cure all the financial problems and bring back the jobs, end war and poverty as well as racial divide. I want to see then cut taxes and yet provide all the things we expect from the government. Let us see them make the government work more efficiently and without adding unneeded complexity. Clean the air and water and bring the price of gas down to $1.50 a gallon. Find all these alternate energies that are suppose to eliminate our need for foreign oil.

Yes, the promises are many and wide, but I will wait to see the actual delivery of these promises. Promises are cheap, results are much more expensive. 8)

http://www.televue.com/engine/page.asp?ID=42
This link will explain it in detail.

Just arrived and I cleaned and installed them in the Atik filter wheel. Now I just need a night without all this Moon to give them a try. 8)
This allowed my to remove the 2" Astronomik IR/UV filter from the TV focal reducer.