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More RGB images - an ambitious post !!

I've combined a whole bunch of different filters to give rgb images of three different targets:-

Apologies for filesizes, I made some dumb choices with jpg compression with some new software that lets me do these quicker, but I'm still learning with (basically it's like photoshop, and you import 3 images, make them greyscale, then combine as rgb into a new image)

Size URL
625,437 NH_Tracks_456
633,650 NH_Tracks_457
634,068 NH_Tracks_356
639,557 NH_Tracks_256
647,435 NH_Tracks_257
794,825 NH_Snout_456
808,426 NH_Snout_457
804,948 NH_Snout_356
814,169 NH_Snout_256
827,296 NH_Snout_257
603,251 NH_Drift_257
525,020 NH_Blue_marbles_257
525,836 NH_Blue_marbles_257_Red_adjust
231,816 NH_Wave_456
234,880 NH_Wave_457
245,985 NH_Wave_257
235,818 NH_Wave_356

Some of the colour balances are very odd, but I have no good data to work from.

The "tracks" come out OK and show the progressive IR colour errors in the blue tab going from 456 to 356 to 256 (These are the "L" filters used in the RGB positions in the colour table)

"Snout" is NASA's name for that rock. Note the wierd blue tint of the spheres, whatever colour balance is chosen!

"Blue Marbles" is a patch with lots of the grey-blue spheres. We only have the IR L2 filter available, and they are very weak in that band, (proibably helps someone to identify them), which makes the scene dominantly blue-green and VERY odd looking. I don't like this one and we probably have to wait for a better-balanced version from NASA/JPL. I tried to pump up the red and down the blue, but it wasn't entirely satisfactory and ended up tinting the rocks.

"Wave" is my name for a piece of the rock outcrop. Again, odd colours, especially with those ethereal glowing blue spheres. I think the camera is wrong, but we do have 456 colour available, and it's still wierd.

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