Re: tricolor strip

[Tom Droege <droege@FNAL.GOV>]

Arne,

I got it and it looks great (to me).  On a scale of "Gee Whiz" to 
"Ugh" how would you rate this picture?  I will want to show it at
a talk that I am giving to a Northern Indiana astronomy club, and 
want to have a better idea of what I am showing.  Most of the 
pictures I see on the web sites are more "Gee Whiz" to me, but then
what do I know.

Tom Droege

At 10:14 AM 4/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I've put on our anonymous ftp site the file
>     pub/outgoing/aah/tass/ori.ps
>which is a tricolor 2048x768 strip from Tom's camera of the belt region
>of Orion.  The color mapping is V=B, R=G, I=R.  I had to do a lot of
>munging to get the images cleaned up, but the result looks pretty nice.
>Each color was Gaussian histogram equalized to try to bring out the
>nebulosity to the west, and also to get the color balance right on the stars.
>If someone wants to take this image and convert it into .gif, feel free.
>I won't have time to do so until next week at the earliest.
>Arne
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