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Title: NGC1499 - HaRGB
Post by: ogami on December 29, 2013, 10:05:29 am

First light with new Atik 383L+ camera. More info about equipment on image click.

(http://astrofotky.cz/~ogami/thumbs/1388273927.jpg) (http://astrofotky.cz/gallery.php?show=ogami/1388273927.jpg)

Title: Re: NGC1499
Post by: ogami on January 02, 2014, 08:30:59 am

HaRGB version:

(http://astrofotky.cz/~ogami/thumbs/1388611447.jpg) (http://astrofotky.cz/gallery.php?show=ogami/1388611447.jpg)

Title: Re: NGC1499 - HaRGB
Post by: Kinch on January 02, 2014, 04:09:42 pm

Nice work! I am sure you are happy with the result. Personally I prefer the Ha on its own......it is hard to get narrow band colours to look 'real' or even pleasing when we know that a certain pallet is used and we are not looking at RGB. For me it appears a little too pink....although I see many others of this nebula exactly like this. Regardless of my purely personal taste & opinion of the colour....Well Done!

Title: Re: NGC1499 - HaRGB
Post by: ogami on January 03, 2014, 11:19:03 am

Thank you for your comment and opinion about HaRGB. As you mentioned, its not easy task to blend much brighter Ha with RGB data. I personally prefer pinker results ... i saw a lot of deep red version of this object (HaRGB) and i dont think that its more realistic. In pure RGB (http://astrophoto.cz/temp/california_LRGB1.jpg) image, california is much more purple/magenta, then deep red. But as you said, everyone got different personal taste and opinion about "right" colors ;)