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Originally Posted by Startrek
Rodney,
Always admire your wide field work , so clean and detailed
Of course dark skies , a stable atmosphere and a boat load of data helps a bit together with a skilled astrophotographer.
Colour palette is excellent, sort of tongues of flame red.
Unfortunately a lot of objects are abundant in Ha and extremely weak in Oiii , however with some clever channel compositing and layering you can create some wonderful colour palettes with only Ha and Sii , and this image is no different. The golden hues are stereotypical HST palette and always provide character.
Well done !!
Martin
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Thanks Martin. It can be quite a challenge at times to develop a palette that reflects the underlying physics whilst presenting an aesthetically engaging result. I did note from this and a couple of recent projects that there can be a strong correlation between the Ha and SII signal with minimal Ha present. We then have to decide whether to just stick with the traditional RGB Ha or to maybe try something different.