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Old 11-08-2013, 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by multiweb View Post
That is excellent Hugh. Really well done. Terrific details and colours.
Thanks Marc!

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Hey, like the colour palette and although many like to process it out I am partial to the presence of some magenta stars too, has some impact and kinda makes it look more like an early HST image, which usually showed magenta stars too because it is an expected side effect of the SIIHaOIII blending

Mike
Cheers Mike, I totally agree, I'm a fan of colourful stars as long as the image stays balanced. I made sure with this one that the SII data was captured when m17 was near overhead and I was lucky the seeing was good, sometimes the stars in the SII/red channel can be hard to wrangle.
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