FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Check Out These "Backyard" Images...

[Brian Skiff <Brian.Skiff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>  ...from his "backyard in the San Francisco Bay Area, which suffers from
>>  typical urban light pollution".
>>  Pretty amazing images from a non-dark site.

     But in the material for the image itself at the photographer's site,
it says the iamges were taken at a place near Yosemite (i.e. fairly dark)
and at Fremont Peak State Park, which seems to be the Silicon Valley
equivalent of Vekol Road, medium-dark, specially if there's fog covering
the urban areas.  This is all narrow-band stuff (i.e. avoiding light-
pollution lines) on what is after all one of the highest surface-brightness
nebulae in the sky.  I would commend the guy not for getting something
like this from less-than-perfect sites, but the large amount of time
both exposing and processing the data.  See details here:

http://www.rdcrisp.darkhorizons.org/m8_hourglass_region_emission_page.htm

\Brian
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