You are right Richard, the pink stars are just fine. I was hoping that I
could get my hands on an algorithm like that to fix color problems I have
with my own shots in normal color ;) Okay.... you caught me ;)
Michelle Stone
ATM Components and
Custom Telescopes by Plettstone
http://www.plettstone.com/telescopes
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> > 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?
>
>