One of the very best run throughs on what can be a very confronting process made a lot easier with your scripts. 11 out 10. Pixinsight process parameters are so often obfuscated rabbit holes but you nail some key points in your videos that can make a huge difference to the results. There should some sort of Hugo award for script writers and content creators as you would win easily.🎉🥳💫
Thanks so much! If you are just starting PI those rabbit holes are just traps at first. While it is good to eventually learn what they all do that comes with time. For instance i heard a certain FastTrack content creator in a processing video spent 30min in pixelmath to make RGB stars from narrowband, and at the end just used my script anyways. Nothing about 30 min in pixelmath is "fasttrack"
A well-done basic tutorial. I love these tutorials as I always find some piece of processing that I'd either forgotten or hadn't used in that manner. Thanks for putting the time into making this.
Once again Frank thank you a fantastic video ! I love taking mono images and in the past struggled a little bit so just ended up using RGB , but now I can go back and revisit the Data I kept and now add the luminance and the HA 👍, probably the best one of these type of videos I have seen, and I will be straight at the Computer tomorrow to redo some of mine :) also , no it every workflow I do is your statistical stretch, blemish blaster etc etc all the best & kind regards & thank you again Richards Astrophotography 👌😀
PERFECT timing Frank ! Thank you very much for this very useful video. While I use a OSC and do not have a L-channel I do shoot with a dual-band filter to gather my Ha data thus this is still very helpful. Can't wait to share with you my humble M33 using these techniques and steps.
Cuiv makes a strong case to purchase it. If you think about it like any other piece of your astro gear it just makes good sense. Just too bad there is no referral program for PI haha
Nothing is going to be basic if you have a mono camera and shoot 5 channels (HaLRGB) lol. A viewer sent me all that and asked for a beginners video to put it all together becuase they were just starting with mono. Not sure I couldve simplified it much beyond that and still have an ok image at the end.
Thanks, super video, the possible idea for the next video or tool is how to arrange that the background of all your images has the same color and black level, discover that it differs by me over time due to various processing methods, I hoop you recognise that
Thats why things like background neutralization and colorbalance are important in RGB images and in other cases unlinked mode in statistical stretch sets all the blackpoints equal as well.
@@setiv2 I know it's a small amount, but if everyone contributes even such a small amount for what you do for the astrophotography community and share it for free, it might add up to something bigger. Best regards
Not necessarily, your luminance is already getting over 3x the photons per same amouny of time as lets say the green channel. I would say dont skip out on taking L if you are going to use it but lets say taking 2 hours for each L R G and B isnt a bad strategy if you want 6 hours in total
The script allows using an rgb, it then extracts the red channel for sii and ha subtraction and green channel for oiii subtraction. I couldve used the red, but i had already did gradient removal and blurx on the rgb, so instead of doing those steps seperate on the red channel i just dropped the rgb in the script.
@@setiv2I’ve never used it so thanks for clearing that up. You must have known as I’ve been searching RUclips all day for an HaRGB tutorial. Would be great if you could do a more detailed tutorial on this subject in the future. Keep up the great work.
@@mickwhitaker4086 i do have a couple continuum subtraction videos and galaxy processing. But of you dont think I cover something in those you want to see be sure and let me know!!
One of the very best run throughs on what can be a very confronting process made a lot easier with your scripts. 11 out 10. Pixinsight process parameters are so often obfuscated rabbit holes but you nail some key points in your videos that can make a huge difference to the results. There should some sort of Hugo award for script writers and content creators as you would win easily.🎉🥳💫
Thanks so much! If you are just starting PI those rabbit holes are just traps at first. While it is good to eventually learn what they all do that comes with time. For instance i heard a certain FastTrack content creator in a processing video spent 30min in pixelmath to make RGB stars from narrowband, and at the end just used my script anyways. Nothing about 30 min in pixelmath is "fasttrack"
A well-done basic tutorial. I love these tutorials as I always find some piece of processing that I'd either forgotten or hadn't used in that manner. Thanks for putting the time into making this.
Once again Frank thank you a fantastic video ! I love taking mono images and in the past struggled a little bit so just ended up using RGB , but now I can go back and revisit the Data I kept and now add the luminance and the HA 👍, probably the best one of these type of videos I have seen, and I will be straight at the Computer tomorrow to redo some of mine :) also , no it every workflow I do is your statistical stretch, blemish blaster etc etc all the best & kind regards & thank you again Richards Astrophotography 👌😀
Awesome video Franklin. I love your scripts and your back to basic videos are really great.
Too bad I can only give you one thumbs up! Fantastic. This made my day, Frank. Thanks so much.
Thank you for the awesome data to use!!
you are killing it with content lately.
Thank you for that, learned a lot!
PERFECT timing Frank ! Thank you very much for this very useful video. While I use a OSC and do not have a L-channel I do shoot with a dual-band filter to gather my Ha data thus this is still very helpful. Can't wait to share with you my humble M33 using these techniques and steps.
Amazeballs! Great tutorial for the small brained like me. :)
Thanks!
You and Cuiv are going to make me purchase Pixinsight afterall 😂
Cuiv makes a strong case to purchase it. If you think about it like any other piece of your astro gear it just makes good sense. Just too bad there is no referral program for PI haha
Cool, bravo à toi ! ✨✨✨
Love these tutorials, especially when it includes data of subjects that we can’t see from my location in New Zealand. Thanks!
I need to get some of your data for the next to share with the northern folks in our community!
Great video, I think it was a bit more advanced than “basic” but excellent all the same….👍🏻
Nothing is going to be basic if you have a mono camera and shoot 5 channels (HaLRGB) lol. A viewer sent me all that and asked for a beginners video to put it all together becuase they were just starting with mono. Not sure I couldve simplified it much beyond that and still have an ok image at the end.
@@setiv2 totally understood….👍🏻
Thanks, super video, the possible idea for the next video or tool is how to arrange that the background of all your images has the same color and black level, discover that it differs by me over time due to various processing methods, I hoop you recognise that
Thats why things like background neutralization and colorbalance are important in RGB images and in other cases unlinked mode in statistical stretch sets all the blackpoints equal as well.
Thanks.
Thank you so much!!
@@setiv2 I know it's a small amount, but if everyone contributes even such a small amount for what you do for the astrophotography community and share it for free, it might add up to something bigger. Best regards
Interesting video, Frank! Would a general strategy be to shoot luminance total exposure time equal to RGB total exposure time?
Not necessarily, your luminance is already getting over 3x the photons per same amouny of time as lets say the green channel. I would say dont skip out on taking L if you are going to use it but lets say taking 2 hours for each L R G and B isnt a bad strategy if you want 6 hours in total
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Hey may I ask why did u use RGB image for continuum subtraction rather than individual red channel?
The script allows using an rgb, it then extracts the red channel for sii and ha subtraction and green channel for oiii subtraction. I couldve used the red, but i had already did gradient removal and blurx on the rgb, so instead of doing those steps seperate on the red channel i just dropped the rgb in the script.
@@setiv2okk... Thanks for your reply.. makes sense now
Why did you have a background tab in your HA, you don't explain, probably a find my background but can you confirm
Nope, that is automated from the continuum subtraction utilitity
@@setiv2I’ve never used it so thanks for clearing that up. You must have known as I’ve been searching RUclips all day for an HaRGB tutorial. Would be great if you could do a more detailed tutorial on this subject in the future. Keep up the great work.
@@mickwhitaker4086 i do have a couple continuum subtraction videos and galaxy processing. But of you dont think I cover something in those you want to see be sure and let me know!!
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