From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: August 21, 2006 4:52:40 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: M16 Eagle - After and Before Image
Hi Folks;
I managed to (barely) capture M16 from smokey Calgary on August 19th.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/DSO/M16_20060819_MJA.jpg
The Before shot at the bottom is what I'm currently putting up with
due to smoke with light pollution and it was a real struggle to pull
anything out of the raw images.
We are currently (according to the Clear Sky Clock and weather
forecasts) in perfectly clear very transparent skies - except the
#@$%^%$^ opaque reddish smoke blanketing Southern BC, Alberta and
Saskatchewan from the forest fires
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/FIRE/Analysis/HMS/currenthms.jpg
raging in Washington. Last night I could barely make out Altair
visually and today it's even worse.
Hope someone is getting clear skies..
Milton Aupperle