Author Topic: RGB H-alpha integration and Masking in PixInsight  (Read 5358 times)

Offline jerryyyyy

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Hi,

I have been collecting h-alpha on M57 (now 20+ hours) and want to integrate it with some RGB to get star color and the core of M57 in the right color... want to add the h-alpha shells in Red. If you look at the screen shot of PI you'll see the H-alpha (unstretched on the right and see how saturated the core is). Now in Photoshop I could do some layers and masking and add everything toegther, but I want to do this in PixInsight... where I can do all the cool noise-reduction etc...

Does anyone have a strategy/workflow for such tasks? I know people must have done similar tasks and do not want to personally reinvent the wheel.

No response to this question over at CloudyNights....
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Re: RGB H-alpha integration and Masking in PixInsight
« Reply #1 on: 2013 July 24 14:01:37 »
Hi

http://www.harrysastroshed.com/Hagalaxy.html

Plus there is the ha rgb script under multichannel synth

And http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=3446.0 is of use

Kind regards

Harry
« Last Edit: 2013 July 24 14:19:33 by Harry page »
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Offline Geoff

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Re: RGB H-alpha integration and Masking in PixInsight
« Reply #2 on: 2013 July 24 14:13:17 »
Hi Jerry
When in doubt, always check out Harry's videos--the answer is often there.
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