Well done, Charles. I found the smaller version lacked impact because it lost the context of the surrounding stars. The image doesn't seem to respond well to the downsampling method as the resizing seemed to downsample most of the stars out of existance (it's very difficult on my minitor to see more than 3 or four stars on the small image). It's interesting, though, that the Firefox browser did quite a good job of zooming the large image to fit on screen while retaining the context.
It's an excellent image but I think it will be a challenge to display it on screen while retaining its full impact. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia The downsampled version loses much of the Quoting Charles Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (re-sending as I used the wrong email account last night and I > guess > non-subscribed email addresses are not allowed to post. Duh!) > > Here in Minneapolis, MN.... the Iridium satellites decided to > present > themselves as a duo > > The local newspapers made a big deal about it, but it was tricky to > > find out exactly where to point the camera to spot TWO of them > going > from S to N side by side (almost). Luckily, I was able to find > out > that it would be almost directly between Ursa Major and Ursa > Minor. > > So I perched myself up on the roof of my office building, and got > this: > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2007/IMGP5194_iridium_small.jpg > > or > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2007/IMGP5194_iridium_large.jpg > > You can see Ursa Minor in its entirety to the left of the > streaks... .and the "bowl" of Ursa Major to the right. I've got > to > work on the post-processing to draw out the details, but you'll > probably be able to get the point. > > (first person to tell me I have DUST on my sensor gets a virtual > SMACK across the IntarTubes) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Home Equity Line of Credit Get 4 home equity quotes today. Just complete our easy online form. http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/MhtYWUi3wuyOizY2fZkTLjPTXemaSzDYKzQlH/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
