[AZ-Observing] Re: Astroimages from Cherry Road

The images are pretty red deficient, and I have done what I can bringing up the 
reds in the "shadows" in Photoshop.  The spectral response curve of the chip is 
here, measured by none other than Christian Buil.

http://www.astrosurf.org/buil/us/digit/spectra.htm

Tom



> 
> From: Brian Skiff <Brian.Skiff@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2005/08/29 Mon PM 10:51:01 EDT
> To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Astroimages from Cherry Road
> 
>     Among the details I looked at was in the image "East of M6".
> I noticed that the red supergiant BM Sco in M6 appears rather faint,
> so just now this evening I had a look binoculars to confirm that this
> must be an artifact of the camera/sensor or the images as displayed,
> since the star is as bright as normal---roughly V mag 5.5, whereas
> it looks more like 7th in the image.  The images don't look
> red-deficient in general, so I'm puzzled why this would happen.
> 
> \Brian
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