Even when the image is not false color, the spread of color intrepretations of an object like M42 often leaves much to be desired.
dvj
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From: Lynne Jolitz <lynne@No-Spam>
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"True" colors are always subject to debate, given spectra spread (anyone ever work with grating spectrographs?) and differences in discerning color in individuals (ever try to pick out paint with someone who can't tell off-white from bone?). :-)
I just find it esthetically pleasing to the mind and eye. Color, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
Lynne.
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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?
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