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Gum 15

Gum 15
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This is a colour photo with B/W camera. For those not sure a normal colour photo is with a normal colour Camera RGB (Red Green Blue). For those old enough to know film photography will know you can colour the B/W photo with filters this is very much the same principal used for Astro photography.

For Astro photos there are two set of filters for a B/W camera LRGB equivalent of a normal colour camera. Then there are the filters that high light the Gasses that make up the Nebula's Ha O3 S2 for Hydrogen Oxygen & Sulphur . The filters are in a filter wheel that moves to the correct position of each filter and to focus on the Luminescence filter then back to the right filter. This can be put into the RGB format in a few ways this Photo Is HaS2O3 format in the RGB colour pallet. There is also the well know Hubble pallet as well S2HaO3.

This was taken during our heat wave 40c+days and 33c nights, so the camera was run at -5c rather than -10c. The system was set to focus every hour during the photo session. This is my very first photo to this type of photo taking this way so an even bigger learning curve than normal colour camera.

ZWOASI183MM -5c 60 shots 10 min each over 5 nights .
Prima Luce Essato Focus ,
Ha O3 S2 Set of filters 60 of each,
Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
Guided PHD2, SGP
Pixinsight, Ps Lr.

Nouchetdu38, Frans Schols, Sarah O', Nick Weall and 6 other people have particularly liked this photo


8 comments - The latest ones
 Peter Chet
Peter Chet club
Great image Steve. Thanks for the info. Pity I lost the plot after only the 1st paragraph. I will read again and research what I don't understand.
Regards Peter
2 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to Peter Chet club
All you really have to know its not take by a colour camera I am still trying to get my head around it as well but you have the evidence in front of you. It is going to take some getting use to as well a lot more work. Many thanks.
2 years ago.
 neira-Dan
neira-Dan club
Fantastique !!
2 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to neira-Dan club
Thank you Almost looks like the top of a pink apple with its stork.
2 years ago.
 Ko Hummel
Ko Hummel club
another great one Stweve, keep going. We are having a bad spell of weather, since begining of november 2021 the weather is dreadful
2 years ago.
Steve Paxton club has replied to Ko Hummel club
Almost matched by our own a whole week of 40C+ not been very nice at all. I know last winter was very bad for clouds down here not our usual clear skies. Tonight I have my 300MM nikon prime on the Seagull Nebula as it fit is across the length of the frame and I was able to rotate the camera 98.6 degrees to fit it in. some thing for you to think on.
2 years ago.
 Mariagrazia Gaggero
Mariagrazia Gaggero club
Affascinante. Bella la spiegazione
Buona serata
2 years ago.
 Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton club
Thank you not quite the easiest thing to understand even for myself. you keep safe.
2 years ago.

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