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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Cheers Guys 
I think a lot of people open an image, take a quick look, form a first visual impression and move on, that's it, which is fine of course, t'is a free World...but if you take the time to really look at an image there is often more that comes through. Apart from the pleasing level of details showing as a result of the better than average seeing on hand, what I am most pleased about with this image is that it very clearly shows the varied distribution of the three emission lines. Look around the image for a while and some complex variations become evident, you can see red (SII), Green (Ha) and Blue(OIII) mixing all over the image, there are nuanced OIII blues spread here and there with the Ha and OIII mixing to form a glowing turquoise colour in places, the SII and Ha mix in places to form a lovely mustard green, the Ibex jaw area is completely mixed with the three emissions forming an intricate mosaic of colours. Many other images of this nebula simply don't show this, so while they may look more pleasing to some eyes from an aesthetic stand point, they often don't show the full scene with these three emission lines 
Mike |
Totally agree with you Mike. For example, my recent interpretation of this region does not show colours nearly as well as yours. As for noticing intricacies, well, it often takes many nights to collect data and then many more hours to process it, but I am afraid majority will spend only a few seconds briefly looking at it thus missing the essence of a message recorded in a space photo.