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Originally Posted by VPAstro
Martin spent the time and effort in capturing 10 hours of data plus many hours of processing time. Is this astrophotography? I would say most definently. There are many of us here on this forum that would die to be able to achieve a final result like that. As for color mapping, isn't it all subjective?
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I am not a fan of randomly mapping colours to objects that have intrinsic colour, (with the exception of Narrow Band imaging)
This is a beautiful region of the sky that showcases many natural and surprising colours that don’t need “creative” modifications. Sure, you can photoshop them, there is no law against this, nor is there one for adding in star spikes, or drawing in a nice hat for the horsie.... but where do you draw the line? I’d rather strive for accuracy over fantasy.