Jim Burnell's CCD Images - Emission-Line Imaging
Familiar objects in a whole new light
These images were acquired using filters which isolate specific wavelengths of light emitted by ionized gasses when electrons that have been stripped off recombine, emitting a photon of a specific energy. The specific wavelengths used here are:
Oxygen III (O III) at 495.9nm and 500.7nm with a 15nm-wide passband
Hydrogen-alpha (Hα) at 656.3nm with a 9nm-wide passband
Sulfur II (S II) at 672.4nm with a 9nm-wide passband

The passbands of the filters used are plotted below:
Emission-Line Filter Passbands

The color images are created by assigning the wavelengths to color channels such that:
O III = blue, Hα = green and S II = red
called the HST palette, as Hubble Space Telescope images are combined this way.
Choose an object:  
M1 M27 M42
M1
The Crab Nebula
M27
The Dumbell Nebula
M42
The Orion Nebula
Supernova Remnant
Planetary Nebula
Emission Nebula
Taurus
Vulpecula
Orion