Re: [APML] Astronomy Magazine M8

["tan@home.com" <tan@home.com>]

Dean,

	Thanks for the link. This is very interesting. M8 looks so blue and 
purple and I find it difficult to believe that all our red images are 
that far off. There must be a reasonable explanation for this.

Loke


Dean Ketelsen wrote:

>>My real question is, what does everyone think of the color rendition of M8
>>in the Sky Gem spread of the January issue.  Is this a correct color
>>rendition in some un-named color space?  It is credited to N. A. Sharp at
>>NOAO/AURA/NSF but no image wavelength data is given.
>>
>>Anyone else think it's strange?
>>
> 
> Hi All-
> 	I just got off the phone with Nigel Sharp - he indicates it is
> indeed an approximation to visual appearance.  He complains that ALL
> pictures of emission objects are much too red.  Astronomy merely 
> downloaded it from the NOAO website, and in my opinion, did a great job
> of reproducing that image.  You can judge for yourself at
> http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0473.html.
> 
> 					-Dean
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