The two things I'd be most interested in seeing would be a display of some of your images and a demonstration of your technique. It would also be nice to see some of the equipment you use but it's a long walk from the parking lot to the lecture hall so equipment displays may not be practical (although you could show the equipment at ATS at Village Inn afterwards). Also Tyler, if you think it a good idea, I could make CDs available containing all of the raw images I used to make the M-1 shot which folks could take home and try their hand at image processing. Note that I had initially thought about posting the images to the web so folks could download them but they total about 60 MB and there's not enough room on my server to do that. patrick On 25 Jan 2009, at 19:35, Tyler Allred wrote:
If anyone is interested, I could use some of my time at the February meeting to demonstrate a few simple processing techniques, using Patrick's original data for M1. I think that 10-15 minutes with that data might be useful for many folks who are learning to process astronomic images. After the meeting, people could experiment with the techniques at home, using the same data. That might be a fun learning experience.
When viewing Patrick's data, I could tell that it was of excellent quality. I just used the LRGB jpegs that were posted in his gallery, but I'm sure that the original fits files would provide an even better version, especially in the bright central region. To be frank, I really didn't do all that much to the original data. It was good to begin with. Anyone with Photoshop could get results equal to mine, using some simple and easy to learn techniques. A little feedback would be good because I'm not really sure what people would like to hear and see in my presentation. I would like to tailor my comments to provide something that the group would perhaps benefit from and enjoy. Let me know if the processing exercise sounds interesting.
Thanks, Tyler