M16 Eagle Nebula Coloring (Very Red) [Solar System] Processing techniques · schmaks · ... · 3 · 247 · 0

schmaks 0.00
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Greetings,

I shot the Eagle Nebula on Saturday night (with a DSLR) and am happy with the results, though it naturally came out very red. I was having some trouble pulling out some more color surrounding the "pillars of creation"; such as the blues/greens you see in some of the more impressive shots of the object.

I would love some opinions as to if I should just leave it as is or if I should attempt to add some more color; and if so, suggestions about how to best do.

I don't want to just randomly add color here/there—so maybe narrowband imaging the best route to get more color data in my images?

Thanks!
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Bobinius 9.01
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Hi schmaks,

You are shooting with a DSLR so it is normal that the dominant color will turn out to be red. (the Universe is mainly Hydrogen, and Ha is in the red part of the spectrum). The colorful versions you see are shot in narrowband. So you made no mistake, just use the Color calibration or Photometric color calibration in Pix to get the right colors. But it will turn out red/pink.

Clear skies !

Bogdan
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schmaks 0.00
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Thanks, Bogdan!

I plan to upgrade to an ASI camera with a filter wheel to shoot SHO at some point (in time).
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stevendevet 6.77
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Yea, like Bogdan mentioned. You need narrowband and a mono camera for the blue's and greens in an SHO palette. 
Most nebula's will be red when taken with a DSLR. that's just the natural colour of emission nebula's, the SHO's are called "False colour images" for a reason. 

If you want more colour with the DSLR, maybe the Trifid nebula (M20) would be an interesting target to shoot with the DSLR. That has more colour in it as it's a combination of an emission and a reflection nebula. Or focus on other reflection nebula's that might have more colour in it.
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