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Title: M8 The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius
Post by: Fay on Sep 14, 2010, 11:17:41

This was 22x600 ha, 15x600 OIII. Mapped as Ha as L & Red, OIII as Green & Blue ( no time for SII)

Atik 314l, ED80, processed in Astroart & PSCS. I have also done one with spikes :o

Will have a go at using Hubble palette

(http://s712.photobucket.com/albums/ww124/virginiafay/M8-Lagoon-rgb-jpeg.jpg)

Title: Re: M8 The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius
Post by: MarkS on Sep 14, 2010, 20:12:22

Fay,

You've got some great data there - technically it is a good image at a very good scale. A very nice lagoon.

I think you're going to have difficulty getting the colours to look right though. Probably best to play around with the colour balance until it looks "right".

Mark

Title: Re: M8 The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius
Post by: Whitters on Sep 14, 2010, 20:24:22

Fay,
May be worth reducing the number of Ha images used for the red channel to match the OIII and SII, that may reduce the saturation in the red channel.

Orpington Astronomical Society

Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: Fay on Sep 14, 2010, 11:17:41