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pinball1970 said:Its green!
Is that real or some atmospheric/ camera effect?
I'm going to venture a guess here without knowing the full story:
I'm guessing the video/images were taken with the Nikon's white balance set to "Auto." But since the camera was just pointing up at the darkness, for the most part, it's just white-balance metering on the noise. Perhaps since there are fewer red and blue pixels, compared to green, in the Bayer matrix, it means there is more noise (as in SNR) in the red and blue channels, resulting in the greenish hue, after the camera's automatic white-balance adjustment.
If my guess is right, the problem could have been alleviated somewhat by setting the white balance to "Daylight." But even then, Saturn would appear a bit yellow due to typical atmospheric scattering (same reason our Sun looks yellow).
Getting the color right invariably takes some adjustments in post processing no matter what you do.
[Edit: it's still a fine image and I appreciate it regardless of the color nuances.]
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