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Originally Posted by Andy01
Bold interpretation Mike - I love the exquisite detail, havn't seen that object so clearly before, very nice capture and proessing.
The colour palette on the other hand .... well I'm not so much a fan I'm afraid, probably just me but imo it's way to ott and garish and I really don't like seeing magenta stars when they're so easy to remove, but as others have said, anything goes in NB!
That said, it's an amazingly clear image, really lets you know the standard of detail that can be attained by someone who knows what they're doing!
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Cheers Andy, glad you liked..
..part of it
Well, although I have not always taken this exact approach...truth be known that in this case, this colour palette
is in fact close to what using these three filters "should" produce and reveal. It shows the distribution of the three emissions Ha(Green) OIII(Blue) and SII(Red) in relative intensities as and where they should be. It is the purely aesthetic-artistic types (like you
) that have skewed the processing playing field such that tri-colour narrowband wavelength ordered emission line images now tend to have essentially just a bi-colour dimentionality to them which is then usually tweaked further to have all nature of main colour based on the processors whim
. This is perfectly fine to do of course and I have done it myself even at times
... but.. such an approach means the image no longer shows where the three emissions are within the nebula any more
- thus using the extra filter was basically a waste of time then. The magenta stars are also the natural product of the SIIHaOIII ordered palette and while I remove most of it (and could remove it all), I often leave some magenta in the stars because, well, I actually like the look
All fair in love and war
Mike