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Old 06-04-2010, 10:40 PM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Super shot Paul

Some lovely colours there mate! Really great job.

As Marcus also found on this area, it is very hard to blend Ha into a colour image but you have aaaalmost nailed it here, the problem is the Ha stars are just so small compared to the LRGB. I just gave up when I tried this area a few years ago and simply displayed my (much wider FOV) HaRGB blend at a slightly smaller scale.... to hide the slight missmatch

After a close inspection of a some past Ha I had of this area with the AP, I can confirm that, yep, the detail you have revealed in the bok globules is deffinitely real. It is interesting to note that the largest of the globules isn't uniformely black at all but instead has quite a bit of luminous gas inside it

http://upload.pbase.com/strongmanmik...68657/original

Mike
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