ondebanks
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Something a little different from me; I just reworked some 645 film shots from 5 years back. This is a mosaic of 2 slides of the winter Milky Way.
Kodak E200 in a Mamiya 645 1000s; 80/1.9 at f/4; 20 minutes per frame IIRC; EQ6 equatorial mount, manual guiding corrections (old-school!). Location was the Connemara coast.
I was never really happy with Registar's mosaicing - it does perfect alignment, but the "joins" are obvious as it cannot correct vignetting. Once again, hugin to the rescue! I would never have pitched it as astro software, but today I just gave it a try and it did a fantastic job here. Not the final word yet on colour/DR etc. but I'll try to play with it some more...would be nice to expand out the mosaic with some more frames, and maybe remove the brownish skyglow gradient at the bottom...
Ray
Kodak E200 in a Mamiya 645 1000s; 80/1.9 at f/4; 20 minutes per frame IIRC; EQ6 equatorial mount, manual guiding corrections (old-school!). Location was the Connemara coast.
I was never really happy with Registar's mosaicing - it does perfect alignment, but the "joins" are obvious as it cannot correct vignetting. Once again, hugin to the rescue! I would never have pitched it as astro software, but today I just gave it a try and it did a fantastic job here. Not the final word yet on colour/DR etc. but I'll try to play with it some more...would be nice to expand out the mosaic with some more frames, and maybe remove the brownish skyglow gradient at the bottom...
Ray