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Old July 7th 08, 12:18 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
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Default The Hubble Palette and the Amateur Astronomer

On 7 Jul, 11:21, ukastronomy
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Combining images from narrowband filters is often done using the
Hubble tri-colour palette, in which SII, Ha, and OIII are assigned to
R, G, and B, respectively. I took this image in 2006 with 20 minutes
exposure per filter from a remote access observatory in New Mexico.

Martin Nicholson, Daventry, England.

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