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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Oh yes!  ...I think you are onto something here.
Very smooth, superb resolution and excellent framing.
Well executed h-alpha simply doesn't need colour...which is not to say you shouldn't add it....just don't bugger up the highlight and shadow so beautifully on display here.
Nice one |
Thanks Peter. Yes you are quite correct. Colour is hardly needed for the lagoon as it reacts so well to Ha. Anyway I'm going to try for the colour weather permitting so we'll see what happens.
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Originally Posted by silv
...colour, of course.
but - looking at your image I realize how overwhelming and distracting colour versions of nebula are to me. I feel as if I can discern more details in b/w  |
Thanks. Some imagers only use Hydrogen Alpha because of the nice b/w detail you get with emission nebulae. I'm still going to go for colour though.