What an amazing tutorial!! I've never seen such a good use of PI's workspace and editing workflows, so much to learn! I'm now following you here and also in Astrobin, thanks much for sharing this!
Very nice. A few techniques I have not seen used before (like oversaturating to evaluate color balance). The artistic evaluation process in concert with the scientific or statistical evaluation is a very nice blend. I watch some folks for the technical how and why. Others I watch for their artistic skills, but their explanations can often be vague. I really like what you produced. A good balance of everything - nice editing too (fast forwards pretty much seamless).
Nice job. Love the short intro. I never thought about over-saturating to see the color balance. Curves is a game changer - unfortunately towards the end we couldn't see what you were changing in Curves because it was behind your pic. I understand you just focused on the RGB stacked image, but I would love to see the purpose/processing of the separated RGB colors. You gave me a new channel to watch and learn. Bravo!!
Thank you very much. I ended up not doing anything with the separate color stacks. It was just something I wanted to try but the color stack was perfectly fine so I threw away the single channel stacks. I could've actually cut out that part I guess :)
@@the_space_koala Ha, yes but it was the the mechanics of the way you keep trying that was so interesting! Like I said, I'd be interesting in watching more of this kind of content from you. Fingers crossed you do more.
I like it :-) There is the technique to take the photos but go from all this data into a jaw dropping result is so fuzzy that these kind of videos sure help. Keep up that smashing work of yours.
I really liked your thought process behind your actions. Thanks for sharing this, I learned a couple of new tricks. I also like to use Bill Blanshan's star reduction scripts. Easy to use and work really well.
Thank you for a wonderful video. Yes, if you make more like this, I shall watch them! Probably few of your viewers will be post-processing at your level (I am certainly nowhere near), but it's impossible not to pick up useful ideas and tips. Just seeing the thought process and method is useful. I have already used the "remove magenta noise" idea, for instance. And it is inspiration to be less lazy too!
thank you so much for saying that and I am glad you find it useful! I always learn new things from others just watching them interact with the data rather than formal tutorials as well!
@@the_space_koala I agree completely. Thanks also for your recommendation of the Thunderbolt SSD; I had just been looking for one (for my "real" work), and your suggested model appears a better option than the one I had been considering. By the way, do you have any plans to review the VIZTA Portable Smart Telescope?
Another great video, but one that shows me how unpolished my processing is! It's an interesting glimpse into the mind of an artist - a sort of stream-of-consciousness as I watch you decide what can stay and what has to go. I hope you make more of them in the future. As always, thank you.
thank you for your very kind comment. I am very meticulous with the processing but I think it's a typical 90-10 situation (I could've spent 10% as long processing it and would've gotten a result 90% as good :D ) I fully see why people are happy with a quick edit sometimes
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Mrs. Luca. I don't have any of the tools you use, I just have a Newtonian telescope and a canon camera. but I liked seeing the way you process the photos
I love your intro video......Toinnnnnng.....The Space Koala, and that's it. Unlike other sites which has too much music & long video intros. Really enjoy this processing video. I'm always ever so ready to learn from others and am hoping you'll make it a series. I'm hoping you'll do M33 as i'm kind of stuck with processing it at the moment. Anyways, thanks for the wonderful video.
Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you found the video helpful. The "toinnnng", haha! I'm serious about astrophotography techniques but try to keep the rest as light-hearted as possible. Not sure about m33 this year, but galaxy season is coming up so if the weather allows we should have many galaxy photos over the next few months
Wow, when I see what you are doing with your image and PixInsight, I see how much I still have to learn while turning in your least favorite color in envy 😂 Thank you for sharing your way of working in your video, instead of doing it as if it was scripted beforehand. 👍
Thanks and I really enjoyed the tutorial and hope you will make more. I do have a question: 29:18 in the timeline you mention pushing blue towards yellow but your camera image is blocking the Curves Transformation box and I'm not sure if you're adjusting the Hue or what? I'm partially color blind so I really like your technique of exaggerating the saturation to get a better idea of the colors.
oops sorry it wasn't visible. in the Curves adjustment window there are many curves and one of them is blue vs yellow, that's the one I was touching. I don't think I've ever touched the hue one :)
Thank you very much. No counterweight needed - I do set the "high payload mode" in the ASIAIR though - it just lowers the max speed as that is the only time you could have issues just before/after a meridian flip. It guides beautifully.
Thanks, I know graxpert and I do use it sometimes. I used it more often before GradientCorrection became available. Sometimes it messes up the colors more than I like
I would call this a "Work Flow Video" :) I have a number of these types of video's on my channel.. I make it clear that they are not tutorials, just showing my workflow basically. You're techniques are very good, I saw a couple of things I need to try out in my workflow. Great final image. CS!
What an amazing tutorial!!
I've never seen such a good use of PI's workspace and editing workflows, so much to learn!
I'm now following you here and also in Astrobin, thanks much for sharing this!
I now have a guilty conscience for processing my pictures so shallow. But now i will change!!!! Thank you for these secrets
Very nice. A few techniques I have not seen used before (like oversaturating to evaluate color balance). The artistic evaluation process in concert with the scientific or statistical evaluation is a very nice blend. I watch some folks for the technical how and why. Others I watch for their artistic skills, but their explanations can often be vague. I really like what you produced. A good balance of everything - nice editing too (fast forwards pretty much seamless).
Thank you very much I’m glad it comes across as seamless, the original was almost 2 hours before I cut it 😁
Wow I know this was not a tutorial but I learned sooo much. Very interesting! Please consider doing this again.
I'm glad you think so. I received some positive feedback so I definitely will!
Thanks for sharing your workflow. Great work!
Great video with good explanations at each step. You have a new subscriber from western Canada!
thank you!
Nice job. Love the short intro. I never thought about over-saturating to see the color balance. Curves is a game changer - unfortunately towards the end we couldn't see what you were changing in Curves because it was behind your pic. I understand you just focused on the RGB stacked image, but I would love to see the purpose/processing of the separated RGB colors. You gave me a new channel to watch and learn. Bravo!!
Thank you very much. I ended up not doing anything with the separate color stacks. It was just something I wanted to try but the color stack was perfectly fine so I threw away the single channel stacks. I could've actually cut out that part I guess :)
Enjoyed how iterative your process is. Will definitely watch if you do more of these.
thank you, "iterative approach" is a fancy way of saying I keep trying until it works :D
@@the_space_koala Ha, yes but it was the the mechanics of the way you keep trying that was so interesting! Like I said, I'd be interesting in watching more of this kind of content from you. Fingers crossed you do more.
One of the things I like about your videos is that the intro is brief and doesn't take itself seriously.
haha thank you! It would be difficult to make something serious with a name like "space koala" :D
I appreciate you sharing your thought processes and how is okay to do it again/over. I think your image is spectacular, by the way!
Thank you very much!
Bravo! Excellent presentation. Your communication skills match you astrophotograhy skills. Well done!
Thank you so much for saying that!
I like it :-) There is the technique to take the photos but go from all this data into a jaw dropping result is so fuzzy that these kind of videos sure help. Keep up that smashing work of yours.
Thank you!
I really liked your thought process behind your actions. Thanks for sharing this, I learned a couple of new tricks.
I also like to use Bill Blanshan's star reduction scripts. Easy to use and work really well.
Thanks for leaving a comment, I'm happy you found it useful
Thank you for a wonderful video. Yes, if you make more like this, I shall watch them! Probably few of your viewers will be post-processing at your level (I am certainly nowhere near), but it's impossible not to pick up useful ideas and tips. Just seeing the thought process and method is useful. I have already used the "remove magenta noise" idea, for instance. And it is inspiration to be less lazy too!
thank you so much for saying that and I am glad you find it useful! I always learn new things from others just watching them interact with the data rather than formal tutorials as well!
@@the_space_koala I agree completely. Thanks also for your recommendation of the Thunderbolt SSD; I had just been looking for one (for my "real" work), and your suggested model appears a better option than the one I had been considering. By the way, do you have any plans to review the VIZTA Portable Smart Telescope?
@@64gkb I don't have plans to review the VIZTA as of now :) glad the SSD suggestion helped!
Another great video, but one that shows me how unpolished my processing is! It's an interesting glimpse into the mind of an artist - a sort of stream-of-consciousness as I watch you decide what can stay and what has to go. I hope you make more of them in the future. As always, thank you.
thank you for your very kind comment. I am very meticulous with the processing but I think it's a typical 90-10 situation (I could've spent 10% as long processing it and would've gotten a result 90% as good :D ) I fully see why people are happy with a quick edit sometimes
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Mrs. Luca. I don't have any of the tools you use, I just have a Newtonian telescope and a canon camera. but I liked seeing the way you process the photos
well if you also have a tracking mount you have everything you need to start taking beautiful photos!
thank you !
i also have and dwarf II :)
Amazing stuff, I have learned a thing or two. I will try them on my pictures :)
Awesome let me know how it goes!
Very helpful and educational, thanks for sharing! Hope that you will do more processing videos 👍
Thanks, will do!
Excellent job on this target and on your channel!! I look forward to seeing more 😎
Thank you Bill! For saying that and for your excellent scripts :)
Good control, great result.👏
That's great job and you have professional skills to deal with these data, thank you very much❤.
thank you very much that's very kind
@the_space_koala ♥️
Thank you for this video! Very useful to hear the reasoning, what you are doing and why.
glad you appreciate it, that was my goal :)
What you're doing here is the missing link in processing that no one likes to talk about. Please keep making more!
I’m happy you think it’s useful
Great processing skill. That was very helpful. Thanks!
very welcome, glad you liked it
I love your intro video......Toinnnnnng.....The Space Koala, and that's it. Unlike other sites which has too much music & long video intros. Really enjoy this processing video. I'm always ever so ready to learn from others and am hoping you'll make it a series. I'm hoping you'll do M33 as i'm kind of stuck with processing it at the moment. Anyways, thanks for the wonderful video.
Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you found the video helpful. The "toinnnng", haha! I'm serious about astrophotography techniques but try to keep the rest as light-hearted as possible. Not sure about m33 this year, but galaxy season is coming up so if the weather allows we should have many galaxy photos over the next few months
Great video and beautiful capture 😍
Appreciate the kind words!
Wow, when I see what you are doing with your image and PixInsight, I see how much I still have to learn while turning in your least favorite color in envy 😂 Thank you for sharing your way of working in your video, instead of doing it as if it was scripted beforehand. 👍
Haha my least favorite color of envy 😁
Fantastic, thanks, you really know your stuff.
thank you for saying that
Thanks and I really enjoyed the tutorial and hope you will make more. I do have a question: 29:18 in the timeline you mention pushing blue towards yellow but your camera image is blocking the Curves Transformation box and I'm not sure if you're adjusting the Hue or what? I'm partially color blind so I really like your technique of exaggerating the saturation to get a better idea of the colors.
oops sorry it wasn't visible. in the Curves adjustment window there are many curves and one of them is blue vs yellow, that's the one I was touching. I don't think I've ever touched the hue one :)
@@the_space_koala Thanks for the reply and I don't think I've ever used the blue vs yellow curve. I'll have to give it a try.
Szuper lett,gratula! 👏🙂
koszonom szepen!
Thank you for all the work going into this. Are you using the asiair plus to control your Rasa?
I used an asiair, I think it was the Mini mounted on the RASA this time. No difference whatsoever :)
Beautiful final image.
Do you have a video on your 8" RASA/AM3 setup? Also wondering if you used the counterweight as the RASA isn't light?
Thank you very much. No counterweight needed - I do set the "high payload mode" in the ASIAIR though - it just lowers the max speed as that is the only time you could have issues just before/after a meridian flip. It guides beautifully.
Great work ✨
thank you :)
Great Job, try the software graxpert to remove the gradient. It's excelent. 👋
Thanks, I know graxpert and I do use it sometimes. I used it more often before GradientCorrection became available. Sometimes it messes up the colors more than I like
I would call this a "Work Flow Video" :)
I have a number of these types of video's on my channel.. I make it clear that they are not tutorials, just showing my workflow basically.
You're techniques are very good, I saw a couple of things I need to try out in my workflow. Great final image. CS!
thank you, I am glad you liked the final image
This is more of a class in computing skills with 1% part about astronomy.
Isn’t that what astrophotography processing is? 😁
nice! this vid is worth your trouble.
I'm glad you liked it!
step one: have ridiculous amounts of data that need almost no noise reduction at all. impressive!
Hahaha that week was my yearly clear sky quota 😁