Well, bored and thinking, man I really wanna finish this image
and while I wasn't planning on using it for anything but colouring the stars (if that!), I decided to have a crack and used the sadly rather sorry and soft RGB collected on Thursday night and pinched some old (and also under par but not as bad as the RGB) SII and OIII data, I had collected on this area in the past....aaaand after
a lot of fiddling, I managed to hack something together - a reasonably faithful original Hubble palette (with a bit more blue
)...and while I had started this exercise just for a bit of fun, surprisingly, I was quite happy with the end result really..
...so here'tis
I was keen to get a good amount of SII and OIII, hopefully in similar conditions to
the Ha and was/am planning this for next New Moon (?)... I really should because it should improve the image further.
M16 and the Pillars of Creation
For a bit of fun, here is a close up
comparison with Hubble
Bit of weekend Playschool box fun
Mike