In natural colors from the Narrowband channels


This image is taken by using QHY8 cooled 6.1mb color camera.

Its not an ideal tool for narrowband imaging.
Each color channel is shooted trough separate filter, this means,
that only 1/4 pixels are used for H-alpha and S-II.
O-III goes mainly to the Green and Blue
pixels of the Bayer matrix array, so about 3/4 of the pixels are used in this case.
How ever, very high quality narrowband images has been taken by using color cameras.
At 11.09. I mainly shoot H-alpha, but before clouds rolled in I managed to capture 4 x 900s O-III and only single shot of S-II, 900s.
5 x 900s with Baader 7nm H-alpha filter Lens: Tokina AT-x 300mm @ f2.8