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Offline kemde

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RGB colour match
« on: 2017 March 15 10:40:49 »
Hello,

i have a trial version of pixinsight and am following an lrgb tutorial with my own data.

First problem i stumbled upon is that after generating the rgb image (LRGB Combination, no L channel yet) the colour channels are not aligned by several pixels. I can do the alignment with the Channel Match tool but then i get images of the stars in the places where they were before the shift. Hope you understand what i mean. If not i will post a picture of what i mean ...

How do i correct or avoid these ?

cheers

Offline jshortt

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Re: RGB colour match
« Reply #1 on: 2017 March 15 12:43:12 »
Did you run the StarAlignment process? If so, what steps did you follow? If not, that's your problem.

John

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Re: RGB colour match
« Reply #2 on: 2017 March 15 12:58:31 »
Dont get your point clearly.
When i use ChannelMatch it looks like that.

Top Image before
Lower image  after

Top Image before
Lower image  after

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Offline Duncan

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Re: RGB colour match
« Reply #3 on: 2017 March 15 13:07:35 »
Other people will no doubt have opinions on this, but I think the channel match tool is probably not the right thing to fix this, rather you need to look at your alignment process, as John says.

There's multiple different ways to get there, but here is the process that I use:

1. Choose the best of the luminance subs, and use that as the alignment reference in the Star Align tool for all subs of all channels. Since my RGB subs are binned 2x2, aligning them using a 1x1 binned luminance reference also takes care of the interpolation at the same time.

2. Integrate each of the separate stacks of channel subs to get my R, G, B & L frames.

3. Combine of the RGB, keeping L separate.

4. With RGB and L frames open, temporarily create a combined LRGB frame. This shows the limits of the combined stack where there are parts of the edges not covered by all subs due to misalignment.

5. Open a Dynamic Crop tool, and draw a box in the temporary LRGB frame that encompasses only fully covered areas.

6. Drag the new instance icon from the Dynamic Crop onto each of the L and RGB frames.

7. Save the cropped RGB and L and discard the temporary LRGB.

At this point, I have cropped and registered L & RGB frames to do further work on, that I can (much) later combine with the LRGB Combine tool.

Offline kemde

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Re: RGB colour match
« Reply #4 on: 2017 March 18 05:08:17 »
Thank you guys ! Yes, Star Alignment was the missing step. The tutorial didn't tell that ...

I must admit that i have my problems with video tutorials. They are like TV cooking shows, everything is prepared and works right away. But videos cost a lot time and bandwidth.

I read that there is a book "Insidde PixInsight". Is that recommendable for a newcomer ?