I have mostly done DSLR stuff in the past, but have started doing LRGB using data from remote telescopes at iTelescope.net. So now I'm doing LRGB combination stuff that I never had to do before.
I've been working from Jim's (jkmorse's) excellent crib sheet, but I'm a bit confused. Step 10 on page one is RGB combine, and then step 23 is LRGB combine. But at the point I get to step 23, I have a luminance image and I have an RGB image. Which tool should I use for combining the two? The LRGBCombine process seems to want four separate images, and when I tried to use PixelMath, I got a weird Star Trek warp effect, even though I had aligned the RGB image to the luminance.
Do I need to separate the R, G, and B channels out of the RGB image before re-combining using LRGBCombination, or am I missing something obvious?
Thanks in advance for any direction you can provide this LRGB newbie.
Chris