Thanks a ton! There's more to come. I'm already working on it.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for commenting 🙏🏻

Thank you so much for writing this. These videos are indeed hard work, and it means a lot to me that you can appreciate that. 🙏🏻

I'm glad you like them. Thanks a lot for commenting :)

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for stopping by :)

Wow, thanks! I'm glad you like the quality of my videos. There's more to come :)

Thank you so much for your kind words 🙏🏻 I am very glad you enjoyed the content and production quality. These videos take a lot of time and effort to make, and it means a lot to me that you can appreciate that. Keep exploring the world of astronomy and astrophotography :)

Thanks for letting me know what you would like to see 👍🏻

Thank you so much 🙏🏻 for your kind words. And thank you for commenting. It means a lot to me 😃

Thank you for appreciating the work that went into this video 🙏🏻 The views don't reflect that yet. But that will change over time I hope :)

Thank you🙏🏼 I'm glad you enjoyed the video 😃

I am happy you liked the video and found its information useful. Thanks a lot for subscribing and commenting 🙏🏻

Thanks, will do!

Thanks for your kind words. I also hope more people interested in astrophotography will find the video. But right now, it looks like it's dwindling away. It's a pity because I consider the content "must-have knowledge" for everyone doing astrophotography. May I ask what made you click on the video?

@@CosmicCaptures I am a novice astro-P and watch a lot of content to learn, so the YT search algorithm suggested your video and the title was exactly the kind of content I need. I hope you are able to continue to publish, your experience as a professional filmmaker definitely shows and is much appreciated!

Thank you for letting me know how you discovered the video 🙏🏼

I'm glad the video was helpful for you. And you are right; the Witch Head Nebula is a tricky target from an urban setting. Thanks a lot for commenting

I'm thrilled that you like the video 😃. The book that I show in the beginning is called: "Astronomy Photographer of the Year" - Collection 12. It's published by the Royal Observatory Greenwich in the UK. They publish a new book with the year's best astrophotography every year. Their books are a great source of inspiration for everyone doing astrophotography.

I'm curious :) What is the poper way to use new equipment?

When we image in broadband, we use colour filters in front of the monochrome cameras to capture colour data. Then, we combine the monochrome data from the red, green and blue filters into an RGB image. We can even calibrate the resulting colour files with data from reference star catalogue data. This way, we can capture and process pretty accurate colour images of space objects. In this case, the colours are real, and we enhance them through post-processing. When we do broadband imaging, we sometimes tweak the colours, but we don't just paint or colourize black and white images. Narrowband is a different story. There we assign the data from specific wavelengths to colours. For example, Halpha is assigned to green, Oxygen to blue and Sulphur to red. The goal is to create an image showing where the specific elements emit light. When we do narrowband imaging, we often take more creative liberty in assigning and balancing the individual colour channels.

It’s helpful to remember that all digital color cameras use the process you mentioned - they have a monochrome sensor with an rgb filter array on top (Bayer matrix is a good search term to find info on this) and the colors are composed after the shot by a processing engine in the camera. Our eyes are one way of capturing and composing light, a camera is another. One is not more “true” than the other.

Then your veteran engineer has misled you somewhat. Any camera you use - even for normal daylight photos - take the photo with a monochrome sensor. Would you say the blue of the sky and the green of the grass weren’t the true colours?

That's a very good point you are making. Thanks for joining the discussion.