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Ivo is there a link to the correct colour palette for HST , HOO SOO images . and what does HOO and SOO stand for obviously HST I know Hubble Space Telescope , so many you tubers kicking out images just wanted to get to the bottom of what the correct colouring should be ie scientific as opposed to ar...

The trouble with colour perception is there’s so many You tubers kicking out images showing blue colouring done in pixinsight that people think that that’s correct though may look pretty isn’t correct colour for oiii.

Wizard Nebula 8.5hrs over 5nights cloud dodging whilst moon at full phase this image was with darks only seemed better without flats than with quite happy with the outcome
Sw200pds/zwo533mc

Thanks ivo

Pac-Man Nebula 5hrs , zwo533mc L Extreme filter , processing in Startools 1.8.512 , sw200pds,
First time I had tried this target slightly too big for the sensor but very happy with the out come

Sorry if this is in any others threads , so I have 6 hrs on the cocoon nebula which is mainly a Ha heavy target,now loading in compose is it best to use both channels for luminance and save and which option is best to use ? then load Ha as red and the combined Ha and 0111 lum file as luminance using...

Restacked Data in DSS

Also if using the tracing panel , I have read the light in some can be the wrong spectrum and can mess colours up I just use a tablet dimmed to lowest setting on my 70 mm refractor..


Regards Dave

What scope are you using? Flats can be a right pain , I find tracing panels to be erroneous as many are lit one edge , I use a El panel with white cotton and an acrylic opaque screen so it’s dim and using flats aid in APT exposure is 3.3 sec , note exposure with el panels need to be over 1 sec so th...

Something doesnt look right to me after initial stretch you can see a sort of bayer matrix pattern i havent seen that in my data ,i would check settings in the FITS settings in siril ,i use ASTAP to stack which seems to work good if you share your data via dropbox i could try stacking in ASTAP just ...