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Originally Posted by codemonkey
That's an awesome NGC 300 guys, congrats! There's a little distorted galaxy at about 1 o'clock that I'm quite fond of... shows up well in yours but it was right on the edge of the frame on mine and I had to crop it out.
Your data looks as clean as mine and you have 9.5hrs here while I had almost 21. I assume you'll be continuing to add to it and combine that Ha data? Looking forward to seeing the final product!
As for the colour, mine's almost certainly... shall we say "optimistic"? Yours is almost certainly more accurate. To be honest I'm not striving for accuracy, I'm not sure how that can be achieved... I don't even trust PCC after seeing how applying deconvolution before using it can impact the results.
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Thanks for the kind words Lee. For open clusters and globulars, I try to find a known G2V star and make it come out white. Mostly (especially for narrowband) I tend to use the "colour agnostic" approach of making the main subject look on average neutral grey, arguing that the human eye and brain are most interested in differences rather than absolutes. Sad that one can't ask a galaxy to hold a standard 18% grey card up to its chest. Even if one did, the side facing us would be black!
Anyways, absolutely love your version of NGC 300.
Best,
Mike