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Old 20-07-2007, 06:19 PM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Trouble uploading

Thanks guys

The conditions were indeed really quite bad and I didn't expect to be able to put together even this quality. I am pretty surprised at how this went to gether in the end actually and as some you ahve noted I toio am pretty excited at ehat might eventuate if I get a still night of good seeing

As Rocket boy quite rightly pointed out the image had a blue cast. It looked ok to me in Photoshop but when I uploaded it onto the web there was too much blue so I went back into PS and upped the red and downed the blue a smidge but when I tried to repost last night I couldn't I tried a few times then gave up and posted here anyway. Fortunately tonight I was able to update the image and here it is:

http://www.pbase.com/strongmanmike20...79275/original

I prefer a very slight blue cast though as I believe it reflects the natural sky background more than red or green and helps make the stars sparkle a little more but this is simply preference.

Hopefully I can get out when the seeing is better and there is no wind....in fact to be honest, I am really hanging out!!!

Thanks again

Mike
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