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From: "Michelle Stone" <tac4mstone@No-Spam>
To: "john gleason" <dvj@No-Spam>; "The Astronomy Connection"
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:08 PM
Subject: RE: [TAC] Most Beautiful AstroPhoto!
> Now if someone could write an algorithm to change those "pink" stars to
> white stars, wouldn't that be something?
It isn't all that hard to take an RGB image and extract the stars and place
them into a false color image. Don Goldman has been doing that and has been
bugging me to try it too, but thus far I haven't. The emission line filters
do make it hard to get "normal" color stars though. To me the weird color
stars just enhance the effect of the false color. Hey, the Hubble folks left
their stars "weird" in the Pillars shot, so that's good enough for me.
Geez, wouldn't it be nice to have some clear skies with some good seeing and
no moon?