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[SII] = Red, Hydrogen Alpha = Green, [OIII] = Blue
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Stars enhanced by using NIR filtered image for Luminance data
Hubble image of star forming region
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Portion of my image enhanced to show region of Hubble shot
The resolution of Hubble shot is simply amazing.
My shot was taken on July 4, 2003 from my backyard in Castro Valley, Ca.
Astro-Physics Starfire 102 f/8 imaging scope (F=812mm)
SBIG ST10XME Imaging camera @-22C
Astro-Physics 80mm Guidescope (F=900mm)
SBIG ST7E guide camera @-15C
Finger Lakes Instrumentation CFW-1 Filter wheel
Custom Scientific Narrowband Emission line filters:
Hydrogen Alpha 656.3nm /3nm passband
[Sulfur II] 673.4nm/3nm passband
[Oxygen III] 500.7nm/3nm passband
BW Optic 49mm type 93 Near IR pass filter (850nm cutoff)
Optec TCF-S robotic focuser
Maxim DL 3.10 used for image capture, processing
Sigma Beta 10 used for combining darks, biases, lights
Three shots of 20 minutes each through each filter type.
[SII] assigned to Red
Ha assigned to Green
[OIII] assigned to Blue