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Offline johnwaynecoffee

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Individual or Dual Band Filters
« on: 2019 August 21 08:09:43 »
New to PI and astrophotography in general.  I do have a STC duo band filter for Ha and Oiii.  I also have a Baeder Sii filter.  Does Pixinsight work best with individual narrowband filters? 

I see videos where people are separating out individual colors and/or filters when processing.  I’m not sure how to do this when processing a duo band filter or do I even need to worry about it.  Also, if I shoot images with the duo band Ha and Oiii, and shoot images in Sii, do I process them all together or do I process the duo band as a separate master image and the Sii as a seperate master image where both master images are eventually combined?

Thanks - Dale

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Re: Individual or Dual Band Filters
« Reply #1 on: 2019 August 21 08:42:59 »
pixinsight is pretty agnostic as far as this goes, it can be used to process any kind of image.

since the duo-band filter passes Ha and OIII, the red channel of your camera will contain the Ha signal and the blue and green channels will contain the OIII signal. so without doing anything your RGB images are pretty much HOO narrowband images to start with. there probably would not be a huge benefit to splitting the channels out and recombining them if you were going to do HOO mappings on that data anyway.

if you want to make an SHO image from data from both filters, then it probably makes sense to split the duo-band data so you can reassemble it with the SII data to make the SHO mapping. in this case when you have your master images from the duo filter, just use ChannelExtraction to get the R, G and B channels from that RGB image. then you'll probably want to merge the G and B images together. there are a lot of ways to do this; you can use PixelMath to add them together, or save them to disk and add each G and B image twice to ImageIntegration and run that with defaults to get the combined B/G master image.

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Offline johnwaynecoffee

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Re: Individual or Dual Band Filters
« Reply #2 on: 2019 August 21 11:44:39 »
Thank you....I will look into making SHO image to see what results I can get from that