NGC1499 - HaRGB

[ogami]

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

[ogami]

HaRGB version:

[Kinch]

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!

[ogami]

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 image, california is much more purple/magenta, then deep red. But as you said, everyone got different personal taste and opinion about "right" colors