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8-OCT-2010 Pawel Lancucki

M42_2010-10-08_fin.jpg

Bieszczady Mountains, Poland

This image was relatively tough, as I captured just 8 x 10 minutes @ the extremely dark site in Bieszczady mountains. This allowed to just bring into view the dim dust clouds but totally overexposed the center. I spend one evening trying various techniques to bring back noise in dim parts. For the overexposed center, fortunately, I got a series of quick 1 min exposures taken with DSLR on huge AP160 APO refractor (also shown in my gallery). Totally different image scale and color balance, but it allowed me to fill in the central region to show some detail.

SXV-M25,FSQ85ED,AP400-GTO
8 x 10 minutes with my portable imaging setup and 7 x 1 min @ my friend Antonio location in Portugal with AP160 and Canon 40D. Calibrated in Maxim DL, final processing in Photoshop CS3 and NeatImage. full exif

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