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Old 06-09-2015, 12:57 PM
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There are lots of ways to determine RGB ratios but I don't think any is a magic bullet.

Some of the ones I have tried include:
  • eXcalibrator
  • using a G2V reference star
  • using pre-calculated G2V ratios adjusted for extinction
  • roughly lining up the R, G & B histogram peaks
  • Unlinked stretch in PixInsight
  • ColorCalibration in Pixinsight using a variety of white references (a galaxy, the star field, the whole image)

I didn't find that any of these did a good job in every situation. These days I use whatever gives me a result I like. Sometimes I blend a couple of different versions.

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Rick.
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