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Is CISS ready for the barrage of ‘Scarlet R’s’?

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The cycle, emiliogtz, definitely the cycle. And I agree on the ladybug U-man.

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Yay! x^o’s very first WIN! Congrats!

//I remember when I sponsored him for TF when he was but a lad…. *sniffle*

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Is it just me before my ‘morning’ coffee, or are some of the weekly stats showing up on the Bibliostats page?

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Does the rust have to be iron based, or would patina’d copper/brass etc. do?

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I’ve done piggybacking; I have a whole bungie cord system set up. I’ll have to dig some of those up; I think I got Orion’s belt area; I know I got constellation sized shots that aren’t stacked, just exposed for a while.

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Indeed, U-Man; Else made the announcement a couple days ago.

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I wonder if CISS can append the bibliostats so your figures roll over?

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A blessing and a curse, Chupa–with such a limited FOV, only 1/2 degree, I miss a lot. And while I can get close in, simple seeing conditions, at best, limit how small the stars can be, and how crisp the features. I think I’d do much better with wider FOV photography.

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err, 4 ‘flats’, not lights.

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ennui that’s the most relevant rant I’ve read on the subject. Bravo!!

**golf claps**

Care to go divoting?

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Yeah, um, chupa about that…over on G+ Peter Bryant gave me some tips, and I applied them. Excepting the successful integration of flats (which had a dramatic effect on the resulting image…very little post processing needed, hell, I could have skipped it entirely), here’s the skinny: the best 18 of 21 subs (I call them ‘lights’), 8 darks (mastered), 4 lights (mastered), combined using sigma processing, full-frame, 50 iterations, processed mostly in DSS, with super-fine curves (I shouldn’t have bothered) in Canon’s DPP. Don’t know why the briht star flared when the others didn’t. I’d crop this if I were to use it for anything other then ‘gee, ma, look what I did’ posts.

Here’s the revised:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/may/01/whirl5b.jpg

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I think, thus far, this is the best stack I’ve managed. Still working without flats nor biases, this is just reprocessing on a learning curve. But there’s some nice detail, more so than I’d gotten on the first go-round. Dust lanes, nebulosities, stuff like that. Stacking iz hardz.

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/may/01/whirlstack.jpg

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Nice work lately.

Agreed. Love that last flower.

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Ok, I have to know, what doubler and what lens?

Okay, I have to know, what beer?

//My beer doesn’t allow for this quality photography…

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