vdB 142 in pseudo RGB...sorry!

[paulobao]

Hello all,

Not a RGB because is impossible to make a RGB from 5nm narrowband filters . Anyway I allways try to do this when I have Ha and OIII data!

The data is the same as the HST image I posted earlier except that I only used the Ha and the OIII. Processed as

L= Ha

R= Ha

G= Ha + OIII

B= OIII

As like the HST processing I have lots of variations for "pseudo RGB processing 1" but I will post for now the one I like the most. I managed to bring some star color but as I said not easy (impossible)to get the real thing.

For what I saw in the web the main stream is the mangenta/red style but I went another way!

Cheers,

paulo

[Digz]

W O W - thats simply stunning. I love it.

[MartinB]

Wonderful dark detail. The mapping you have done has worked very well

[Tim]

That has worked well Paulo, you can really see the detail, which is the whole point of the narrowband filters. I really like this one

[Daniel-K]

i like this the most out of all of the pictures posted

[vdb]

Really nice, but one small remark, and I have the same problem not with the elephant trunk but with Nan-Peli ... lots of small grey stars ...

Yves

[samir_ansari]

WOWZA! That's an incredible image.

What were your exposure times like? also on what eqpuitment?

[ollypenrice]

That really is lovely, Paolo. I personally prefer it to the Hubble palette because I feel I can relate to it more naturally. The gas structures towards the bottom of the Trunk are exceptional. Altogether, pure class.

Olly

[Shibby]

No need to apologise for that! Lovely, dusty scene.

[Austin]

Amazing image Paulo, stunning detail

[paulobao]

Thanks for seeing my image and for the comments :-). I'm glad that I'm not boring you with my trunk!

Cheers,

paulo

[ColB]

Lovely!

[NickK]

Only thing that annoys me is the dark sharpening halos around the stars at the bottom of the trunk.

Beautiful image.