Raeburn, I looked at your original and decided I didn’t have the skills to enhance it. That Tyler has secrets man, like Focus Magic (Photoshop plug-in program). We are going to have to hi-jack that guy. It seems like every PhotoShop plug-in I have look at costs about $80.00. $80 bucks here and $80 bucks there, before you know it you’ll be talking some real money. The image I took of Lulin was about like yours. Glad you are not discouraged because like me you probably learned a lot just going through the process. The next one has to be better. Oh, and about Chuck, I agree, he is kind but not old. Jim --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Raeburn Kennard <rkennard@kmclaw.com> wrote: From: Raeburn Kennard <rkennard@kmclaw.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Lulin photos To: "'utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com'" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 9:59 PM I posted two new photos of Lulin to my SLAS gallery http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=464&g2_page=2 The first is another version of one already posted earlier, but this time edited by Tyler Allred. He works magic even on my simple tripod & camera shot. Here's what he did: "I am using Photoshop CS3, but there may be a more recent version out. I just did a quick version with your data. I used Focus Magic (Photoshop plug-in program) to remove the trailed stars. Then I did some curves and levels adjustments in Photoshop. I broke my own rule and forced the background to black because there was quite a bit of blotchy noise there. That is normal when using only 1 frame. The resulting image is not bad. Keep up the good work." It is encouragement like that which makes me enjoy this discussion group. And, Chuck, no matter how curmudgeonly you try to sound, we all know you're just a kind old teddy bear! Like the Saturday you volunteered to come to my house to collimate my 20-year old Dob, when I had never heard of collimation before. Thanks to the group for being a source of light and friendship. Raeburn Kennard (mostly a "lurker") _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com