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Name: P-M Hedén Date: 10/28/04 Object: Total Lunar Eclipse
Details:
Telescope: Celestron NexStar 11 GPS @ f/6.3
Camera: SLR camera Practika
Exposure: 6 seconds
Site location: Vallentuna, Sweden
Time: 03.05 UT
Any Other Pertinent Information: Kodak Elite Chrome 200 Film

Processing:
Slide scanned @ 300ppi (43x30cm) with Nikon Coolscan V ED, unsharp mask and cropped with Photoshop 7.0.
Name: Monroe Harden Date: 10/28/04 Object: Total Lunar Eclipse

Details:
Telescope: Celestron Powerstar C8 PEC
Camera: Canon AE-1
Exposure:
Site location: My back deck in Havre de Grace, MD
Any Other Pertinent Information: 200 speed Kodak print film; camera mounted at prime focus (direct to scope, no eyepiece); telescope is fork mounted with wedge and field tripod.

Processing:
Print scanned with HP flatbed scanner at 600dpi resolution.
Processing done in Adobe Photoshop 5.5; light contrast adjustments and dust speck removals with paintbrush, resized and saved as a JPG. This was a single image.

Name: Barre W. Spencer Date: 08/22/04 Object: 1st Quarter Moon

Details:
Telescope: LX200 10" Classic at prime focus with a 0.63 focal reducer
Camera: K1000 Pentax SLC with ASA 400 film.
Exposure: 1/60 second
Site Location: Mount Holly, N.C.

Processing:
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 - Adjusted brightness and contrast.