Friday, April 16, 2021

Making a Natural Color Image From Narrowband Data (HaGO) Process by Dylan O’Donnell

I did a quick processing of my 2021 narrowband version of IC2177 - Seagull Nebula using a color palette developed by Dylan O’Donnell. This palette was developed to mimic natural color rather than the psychedelic color scheme of SHO images. Basically Ha is put into the red channel, OIII is put into the blue channel, and broadband green is used for the green channel. Dylan was asking for examples using his technique. Ideally I would have collected more green but it is what I had. It certainly looks closer to a natural color scheme. Since I was able to do a real RGB image, I was able compare the star colors with the HaGO image. To me it looks like they match pretty well.






IC 2177 - Seagull Nebula
Dates: 2-21, 2-23, 3-4, 3-5, 3-7, 3-9, 3-10, 3-12, 3-13, 3-14, 3-15, 3-19, 3-20, 3-21, 3-23
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
Telescope: Astro-Tech AT115EDT 115mm Refractor Telescope
Barlow: None
Focal Length: 805mm
f/7
Focal Reducer: 0.8x AstroTech Field Flatterner/Focal Reducer
Mount: Orion Sirius
Filter Wheel: ZWO EFW 8 x 1.25"
Filter: ZWO Ha, OIII, G
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Autoguiding: ASI120 Mini attached to an Agena 50mm Guide Scope/ZWO 60mm Guidescope
Exposure: Ha 91 x 240, OIII 82 x 240, G 35 x 60
Gain: 139
Offset 21
Temp: 0 C
Processing: NINA, PixInsight, Photoshop, Topaz DeNoiseAI.

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