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M16, in the Hubble Palette, Frank Kane
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M16, in the Hubble Palette

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M16, in the Hubble Palette

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For years I've been trying to approximate the iconic "Pillars of Creation" image, but I never could get my SHO images to look anything other than green.

Well, I finally captured decent OIII data under darker skies and no moon, which helped. And I stumbled across the real secret - linear fit your narrowband data to OIII before doing a RGB combine.

Clear skies are rare this time of year in Florida, so even though it's only a handful of hours under poor seeing, it'll have to do. Maybe next year I'll get luckier with the weather.

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Description: Merged in some data from 2019

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M16, in the Hubble Palette, Frank Kane