Joe; The images were taken at the RAS Observatory in Cloudcroft New Mexico. Ed --- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:

VERY nice! Where did you take them, Bob? Best wishes, Joe

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Tyler; Thanks for your reply. I would be happy to share my raw images with you and the processing steps I use. The images are taken by a camera using a MaxIm DL program and are calibrated, debloomed (if necessary) have hot and cold pixil removed, combined and then alined and color combined in MaxIm DL. I then streach the images to their maximum and save them as tif. files that can then be imported into PhotoShop CS where the final processing of Sharpening, Levels, curves, etc. is done. If you have MaxIm DL, I could send you the raw zipped files to work on. If you don't have MaxIm DL, I could send you the tif. files that you could work on in PhotoShop. If you would like to contact me further you can do so out side the group by my e-mail address which is: http://www.lunco@yahoo.com Let me know what you would like to do. P.S. I have a number of other folders that you might like to look at which you can do by going to: http://www.edsgalaxy.com or http://www.utahastronomy.com/ and looking at Ed's album (bottom of page 3)[I hope these are the correct links] Let me know what I can do; Ed Lunt --- Tyler Allred <tylerallred@earthlink.net> wrote:

Hi Ed, Nice group of images. I always enjoy seeing the false-color narrowband images. They bring out some very nice details.

I would enjoy talking to you about the processing of your images. What software are you using? What processing methods are you applying? I would like to get a chance to experiment with your raw images sometime... if that would be OK with you. I really enjoy processing the data, and would like to take a shot at processing some of your raw data. What say you?

Thanks for posting!

Cheers, Tyler

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Hi group; I have just posted three new images (M16, M8, and the Helix Nebula) that can be seen at http://utahastronomy.com/album24 These are all Narrowband images which gives the intense color. Hope you enjoy; Ed Lunt

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Joe Bauman wrote:

Good morning to the group.I was out until 12:45 a.m. at a relatively dark site, without seeing an aurora. But the site wasn't as dark as I'd have liked because of a lot of freeway traffic and because of that #$*(!@ nearly full moon. Anyone have better luck? Best wishes, Joe

I was out for a short while around local midnight (~01:30) and saw nothing. But, like you said, the Moon was really messing up the sky. Patrick