ED80 Planets

[mightymonoped]

Been reprocessing some recent images using Image Analyser for deconvolution so I thought I'd put them together in a little gallery shot.

All taken using ED80 and Televue and/or TAL barlows on a old driven EQ5.

Tony

[centroid]

That was a nice idea Tony, looks really good.

Dave

[beamish]

That's a great collection Tony, Venus looks lovely with it's phase. ( light-bulb moment,I must get an ED80mm !!)

Karlo

[jgs001]

Nice one Tony. That's a great looking collection

[radioactive]

Its lovely that's a great collarge mate so how do you put them all together like that for those people that don't know about these things you understand like me for instance

[steppenwolf]

A good idea and a nice collection!

[Sam]

A smorgasbord of planets and all very nice too!

[mightymonoped]

Its lovely that's a great collarge mate so how do you put them all together like that for those people that don't know about these things you understand like me for instance

Thanks all for your kind comments

No great trickery trickery to making the gallery image. Just copy and paste the four images onto a new (black) document, then use 'flatten' and save to create your combined gallery image. You should be able to do this using any photo editor (Painstshop Pro or Photoshop for instance).

In this case I used Photoshop CS2:

Set the background colour to black.

Create a new document (using 1024x768, background colour and 16bit colour)

Then opened each of the four planetary .tiff files

For each .tiff file, crop to a manageable size

Ctrl C or copy

Select the empty 'frame' document'

Ctrl V or Paste then use the select/move tool to move the pasted image to where you want it in the finished gallery picture.

When you have all the images where you want them, 'flatten' the image (or merge all the layers together)

Then save the document in your preferred highest res format (for me that's .tiff)

Then save in a web publishable format (JPEG0 at an appropriate filesize.

You can of course put all kinds of fancy frames and text in, but I'm just too lazy

Tony

[Black Shuck]

light-bulb moment,I must get an ED80mm

MMMMM!!! I'm afraid I had one of those moments when I looked through Tony's ED80 at the East Anglian meet.

That's a nice collection Tony.

Cheers

Bill£

[mightymonoped]

Here's another version with a Jupiter in place of the extra Mars

Tony

[SteelRat]

That's some real nice planetary stuff from the 80mm Tony 8)

Cheers

Matthew(SR)

[PH-R]

Fantastic shots well done!

Can't wait to get the 100ED up and running.

Kind regards,

Paul

[neil phillips]

Excellent stuff Tony