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Uranus Image 2011/01/21(UT)
Stanislas Maksmowicz,David Gray
S.Maksmowicz,D.Gray
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Stanislas Maksymowicz (305mm cassegrain) |
You may compare with the observations performed on 17th.
[Stanislas Maksymowicz Ecquevilly,France]
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David Gray (415mm Dall-Kirkham) |
I have been trying a new approach
with computerising my Uranus (and Venus) drawings. I can never get a really
satisfactory scan here. A lot of the very subtle shadings, that I greatly wish
to convey, get lost in the process and too much time is spent trying to get the
scan 'restored' to the original aspect, and then end up getting stressed and
unhappy with an image that might look right but feels 'unclean' due to all the
messing! So I thought I may as well draw/copy these planets directly in Corel
Draw / Photo Paint X4. This has took a bit of practice as some of the diffused
features end up coming out contoured; but I see there is a Smart-Blend function
in X4 that largely eliminates this and preserves the features too. I use a very
smooth white paper (Xerox Colotech+ printer paper). Even so the scanner always
finds the grain/texture and loses the finer shadings with these planets. After
all there is no such grain/texture visible from here on the planets; even if it
may perhaps have a certain aesthetic appeal otherwise!
[David Gray: Spennymoor Co. Durham,United Kingdom]
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