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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Hi George,
Ok  firstly, stop the bragging about the clear weather ok, we southerners are currently severely depressed during winter, hearing your wonton gloating just makes us more depressed  
Seriously though, this is a good effort and I think the colours are indeed pretty close to what they should be. You see, many image processors work the nebula to be very Blue-Red but in reality if we are looking at the physics going on here (I co-authored an article on this with David Malin which appeared in the Sept 07 edition of Sky & Space mag), the Trifid has a lot of dust and molecular cloud associated which not only contributes to the blue reflection due to Raleigh scattering but by mixing also imparts a turquoise-green hue and even white in the area just outside the central dust lanes ..and you have that showing here quite well 
Mike |
Thanks Mike, the wontons are good up here too but come Sept/Oct everything gets put away, the chances of a clear night is minimal.
Thanks for your comments, i tried to find the article but could not, is there a copy anywhere