Hubble Image Color Composition
Channel: gaussianwave
Date: 2021-01-06

A step-by-step tutorial for taking images from the Hubble Legacy Archive, converting from FITS to TIFF using SAOImage, and processing in Adobe Photoshop for a composite color image.

00:00 The Hubble Legacy Archive
09:08 Hubble Instrumentation
15:39 HLA downloading
18:07 SAOImage download
20:18 Converting FITS to TIFF with SAOImage
29:05 Photoshop Stack & Blend
34:38 Photoshop Colorizing & Cropping
50:35 Photoshop Noise Processing & Exporting

The object used was IC 63, the "Ghost of Cassiopeia"

Hubble Legacy Archive: https://hla.stsci.edu/

Hubble Instrumentation: https://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation

SAO Image: https://sites.google.com/cfa.harvard.edu/saoimageds9

Hubble's image of IC 63:
https://hubblesite.org/image/4242/gallery
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/hubble-captures-the-ghost-of-cassiopeia
https://astronomy.com/news/2018/10/a-ghostly-nebula-glows-in-cassiopeia