View Single Post
  #6  
Old 17-02-2011, 10:45 PM
pgc hunter's Avatar
pgc hunter
Registered User

pgc hunter is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Renmark, SA
Posts: 2,980
Quote:
Originally Posted by barx1963 View Post
Thanks Sab
I have occasionally seen a touch of green in brighter PNs. Not sure if it is an effect of the optics but it is present at all powers so I think not. Maybe atmospheric?
Might be your darker skies, or even the differences in sensitivity to different wavelengths between each individual set of eyes. I myself haven't actually seen green in any PNe, except NGC 7009, which is a vivid light green. The most common colours by far I see are some shade of blue, white or grey. I remember a thread with several people chiming in with their visual descriptions of IC 418, all varying, which prompts me to think that one individual's eyes are more sensitive to a certain wavelength of light than another's.

Last edited by pgc hunter; 17-02-2011 at 10:57 PM.
Reply With Quote