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ASTRO: M53 back after a near death experience
I'd thought I'd imaged M53 but never could find the data. I even
planned on taking it a couple months ago but clouds rolled in before I could start the run. Still cleaning the hard drive I found a directory named "Cant_Process". It was full of random frames ruined by something that I'd saved for no good reason; out of focus, 10 seconds rather than 10 minutes, wife lit fireplace sending sparks through the frame, etc. I was about to kill the whole directory when I noticed at the end were an entire series of frames taken on one night. Curious I opened one and found it an excellent globular. Which one? Header shows the coordinates fortunately. Turned out the series was the "missing" M53 frames from 2007! They came within a second or two of a delete key death. Needless to say they were moved to a more appropriate location on the hard drive. Color was limited to one frame each for RGB but with a star cluster that isn't as serious a problem as with extended objects. Still I wish I had gotten more color. It may still be lurking in some other directory I haven't explored or maybe one I've already deleted. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=12x5' RGB=1x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". |
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ASTRO: M53 back after a near death experience
It looks like it is alive and well!
Joe "Rick Johnson" wrote in message ... I'd thought I'd imaged M53 but never could find the data. I even planned on taking it a couple months ago but clouds rolled in before I could start the run. Still cleaning the hard drive I found a directory named "Cant_Process". It was full of random frames ruined by something that I'd saved for no good reason; out of focus, 10 seconds rather than 10 minutes, wife lit fireplace sending sparks through the frame, etc. I was about to kill the whole directory when I noticed at the end were an entire series of frames taken on one night. Curious I opened one and found it an excellent globular. Which one? Header shows the coordinates fortunately. Turned out the series was the "missing" M53 frames from 2007! They came within a second or two of a delete key death. Needless to say they were moved to a more appropriate location on the hard drive. Color was limited to one frame each for RGB but with a star cluster that isn't as serious a problem as with extended objects. Still I wish I had gotten more color. It may still be lurking in some other directory I haven't explored or maybe one I've already deleted. 14" LX200R @ f/10, L=12x5' RGB=1x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Rick -- Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct. Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh". ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- |
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