How
are
natural
color pictures made?
A picture
of a natural color scene may be represented as a combinations
of three separate views in three
primary
colors. These
separated images may be made by using color filters to isolate
the selected color and produce three black and white pictures,
one representing each color. This is how color video cameras
and color film photography works.
Making
natural color Hubble Space Telescope pictures:
Eagle nebula RED
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Eagle
nebula GREEN
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Eagle
nebula BLUE
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Eagle
nebula RGB
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Try it
yourself!
In this
interactive activity
,
combine the red, green, and blue versions of a Hubble photo
to see the natural color result.
(You
will first need to
install
the Shockwave player
in your browser.)
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