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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Hi Jerome, this is a good image of this famous pair with your small scope, nice work  Getting colours that you like when processing wavelength ordered emission line data from three filters is pretty difficult and yes it can drive you spare   ...the only thing I would say is that most emission nebulae imaged using three filters should not look essentially bi-colour ie two toned, there should really be three clearly different colours mixing across the object. Many people process this variation out in the search for what they see as pleasing to the (their) eye but doing this removes some of the reality from the image not to mention essentially wasting the time of collecting three data sets.
Thanks for sharing
Mike |
Thanks Mike. I agree entirely with your sentiments regarding emission line imaging and hope that I've shown the distinction between the three channels here clearly as that was the intention.