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Offline Nocturnal

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ColorCalibration: does this look right?
« on: 2009 July 03 12:16:06 »

Hi,

I applied color calibration to one of my images and the result seems fine (a subtle difference, nothing dramatic) but I'm not sure how to interpret the intermediate result windows to see if I should tune parameters further. A screenshot can be found here:

http://gallery.tungstentech.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1515

What should ideal reference masks look like?
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Re: ColorCalibration: does this look right?
« Reply #1 on: 2009 July 04 01:04:20 »
Hi Sander,

Your white reference looks correct; it has selected basically all of the stars in your Preview03. It seems there's also some faint nebulosity selected, but I may be wrong. Anyway the selected stars should provide enough statistical basis to compute reasonable white scaling ratios.

Your background reference can be improved. More background pixels should be selected, ideally as large solid regions instead of isolated small structures. You're probably using too restrictive selection parameters. Again though, it should work well to sample the background, but it can be improved.

When possible, I recommend to define more previews and David's PreviewAggregator script to gather them as unique reference images. This holds for both the background and white references. More is always better here: more stars provide better statistical support to implement the star-based white balancing paradigm, and a large number of sampled background pixels provide the correct reference to apply an accurate color correction.
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Offline Niall Saunders

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Re: ColorCalibration: does this look right?
« Reply #2 on: 2009 July 04 01:38:53 »
Hi all,

When using David's Preview Aggregator to gather multiple background areas, how then does PI handle the inevitable 'black spaces' that exist between the collated previews?

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Re: ColorCalibration: does this look right?
« Reply #3 on: 2009 July 30 04:49:55 »
I believe that black pixels are ignored, but am unable to find the exact place where Juan told that. Searching for <<colorcalibration black>> yields no results...
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Re: ColorCalibration: does this look right?
« Reply #4 on: 2009 July 30 05:01:16 »
Thanks for that David,

I'll have a hunt around and see if I can find the reference.

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Niall Saunders
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Re: ColorCalibration: does this look right?
« Reply #5 on: 2009 July 30 14:23:12 »
Oh, it seems that the search box is context-sensitive. Going to the forum's main page and repeating the search, two results appear. One of them is in this thread ;), the other one goes exactly to the point:

http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=1105.msg5206#msg5206
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