Color Palettes

Processing Narrowband SHO Deep Sky
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Nick Grundy avatar
Nick Grundy avatar
Just wondering how much everyone else has thought about the color palette's for narrowband imaging. I seem to gravitate to the Huble Palette but have started looking at it a bit more when processing. 

I did a compare recently just to check it out. 

Do you all tend to enhance RGB with narrowband data or map directly to a color palette? 

Engaging
Joe Linington avatar
Joe Linington avatar
Of course I think about palette, I’ve used SHO in 3 different renditions, HSO, HOO, HHO, RGB, LRGB and HaLRGB. But none of those examples are really what they look like in the end. That’s just the output at one step in the process. Although I might play with OSH or SOH, I can see some interesting possibilities there.
Addos avatar
Addos avatar
Look into the foraxx palette formulae. Opens up a lot of new blending combinations.
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