Fox-Fur Monoceros

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Comment by Arie Nagel on April 21, 2011 at 3:50am

yes Spike
that is a good approach!
you might have a look at the colors the best photographers use:
http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/
http://www.karelteuwen.be/

Comment by spike77 on April 21, 2011 at 3:44am

cool info arie i have ben googleing pics of my objects and trying my best to match them but a nice book would b cool gonna check that out

Comment by Arie Nagel on April 21, 2011 at 3:42am

Astrophotography by Jerry Lodriguss
http://www.astropix.com/INDEX.HTM
Ron Wodaski:
http://www.newastro.com/

Comment by Arie Nagel on April 21, 2011 at 3:37am

"I agree that for color,the technique is the same as black and white,but what's the "real" colors?
For my holidays in october,I intend to study Ron Wodaski 's Zone system for astroimaging."
Some say the real colors are the ones, looking at the spectrum, but since we want to produce pretty pictures, i would not care about that too much. Hubble gave here a leading example by introducing the Hubble pallet, so ...
And as an MD you will be aware that 'false' colors can enhance information.
The Zone system is an excellent book, but you might start with Wodaski's earlier book or the ebooks of Lodrigues.

Comment by Arie Nagel on April 20, 2011 at 4:12am

:-) with a DSLR it is not that difficult to get nice colourful pics
however with een dedicated astro camera it is more difficult, but the result is probably more rewarding

if you take b&w pictures, you can take coloured pics, same technique, same procedure;
however you need good software and skills to merge the results into a nice colour image