Early Morning for Copernicus, Stadius and Eratosthenes

[Steve 1962]

First light with a new (to me) SW 200P. This was a 200/1000 avi taken with a QHY5v through a Baader Long Pass Red Filter and a 2x TV Barlow. Processed in Avistack 2 and PS Cs3.

I'm pleased with the way the peaks in Copernicus are just illuminated, but I'm not sure about the focus - what do you guys think?

Cheers

Steve

[smerral]

That's a fine shot, Steve- the focus is maybe a touch out. Hope you don't mind but I ran it through focus magic (which is my pet program at the moment!) and got this:

Just a touch sharper I think. I like the way you've caught the sunlit peaks of Copernicus

[oldfruit]

Really nice close ups.

[themowgli]

Hold on a minute! Sowhat you're saying is by using a program such as focus magic, you can actually adjust the focus of a picture after its been taken?

Wow - the things you can do nowadays.

[smerral]

Hold on a minute! Sowhat you're saying is by using a program such as focus magic, you can actually adjust the focus of a picture after its been taken?

Wow - the things you can do nowadays.

Yes you can Steve - up to a point - if you look at Recover Detail and Sharpen Your Blurred Photos you can read all the technical stuff. As a standalone it only does JPG's but as a plugin to photoshop or irfanview it does other formats. It's not a cure all, but it's better than unsharp mask and I find it's improved nearly all my images, even the ones I thought were OK in the first place.

[Astrokev]

On the basis that your initial image is far superior to anything I've been able to achieve to date, I'd say it looks great!

Well done. Look forward to seeing more.

Kev

[Steve 1962]

Thanks everyone for your comments and especially smerral - I see there's a trial version of Focus Magic - off now to download it!

Regards

Steve

[smerral]

Thanks everyone for your comments and especially smerral - I see there's a trial version of Focus Magic - off now to download it!

I don't know what processing software you have. I don't have photoshop but use Irfanview among others. Irfanview is a free program. If you download the Adobe 8BF filters for it, then drop the focus magic.8BF file into the filter factory folder you can then use it as a plugin with irfanview. But if you do have photoshop it's supposed to work with that too.

Honestly sometimes I have used this software SEVERAL times on the same image with no ill effects. Hope it works for you!

Regards,

Brian

[Steve 1962]

Cheers Brian - I've got PS CS3, and Focus Magic seems to work a treat - thanks for the tip

Steve