[AZ-Observing] Re: Holmes 17P Comet Images

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.
>
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