[AZ-Observing] Re: Holmes 17P Comet Images
- From: Janis Schoenfeld <ganymedes@xxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:12:19 -0700
Maybe it’s because an old friend has just returned to the early morning
sky (M42), but I have to agree with Brian here. Not even the most jaw
dropping Hubble photograph of this object has ever come close to what I
have experienced spending a few hours with it at the scope. The dusty
regions float and almost seem to dance at times between you and the
luminous part of the nebula itself. There is a “presence” to it that no
image has ever captured.
Janis
Brian Skiff wrote:
> The main problem is being able to record and display the
> very large dynamic range present between the nucleus region and
> even the main outer coma. Easy for your eye, but not for
> paper or screen display without compressing the dynamic range
> considerably....and doing that without screwing up the gradients
> in the scene. I've seen some over-masked/over-sharpened/over-whatever
> images posted in the last two days where simply too much processing
> has been applied. Artistically "interesting" but not a faithful
> rendering of the event.
>
> \Brian
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