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Sunday, June 6, 2010

An experimental M8, the "Lagoon nebula"




M8 in HST-palette, 50% broad band luminance used at top of the NB image, 100% for the Stars.


M8 in natural color narrow band composition, 50% broad band luminance used at top of the NB image, 100% for the Stars.

Original pure narrow band compositions can be found here:
Technical details are behind the link above.

Star colors are not RGB-colors! 
They are mixed from O-III and H-alpha stars by using a scientifically "wrong" method as a form of artificial Green channel. 

Luminance information, 7x300s, dark calibrated.










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