Due to cloudy weather during tonight's RAC meeting-the live observing program will not be possible. Instead, the program will be about how color images are obtained using the monochrome 294 M Pro camera. I will go through the workflow used at MSRO to convert the black and white raw images into beautiful color images. I think it will be a very instructive and interesting exercise and encourage everyone to attend if possible.
We will use images tonight of the beautiful southern star cluster M 46 in Puppis. As some of you know-it has a ghostly faint planetary nebula embedded among its stars. I am including two images-a? 60-second raw monochrome image taken with the V band (green) filter, and the final result obtained by stacking and combining 30 separate images (10 each using the red, green, and blue filters).
Hope to see you tonight to watch how we go from one image to the final color result!
Myron Wasiuta
