When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts
as with creating images.
Section of nebulosity between the N. American and the Pelican. 1 hour h-alpha and sixty minutes total combined RGB. 5" f/7 refractor, SXHV9 Starlight camera.
With the weather keeping us from the much desired clear skies, need to fill in the open time space by playing with our images. This is the Pelican in Ha (Red) with some green and blue adjustments. Nothing else to do but experiment in Photoshop.
This is a combined 70 min image of NGC6992 and is only part of the entire nebula. It is located in the constellation Cygnus. I was playing around with CMY and Ha filters (photoshop color not always what one wants). The image is combined Lum 30min, Ha 10min, Cyan 10 min, Magenta 10min and Yellow 10min. Using these filters can produce odd looking color images. In most cases the nebula is shown in mostly red, usually using RGB filters.
NGC 1976: 151 Ha images combined, false color, crop image, taken from Whiting, NJ, January 5, 2010 at 00:30 am. following a night of observation and imaging of M81
