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konstantinos75
01-09-2015, 10:33 PM
This is my attempt with Pixinsight of the Pelican Nebula.
http://www.albireo.gr/astrogallery/nebulae/diffuse/2015.08.20/Pelican.html

I did my best to process this image but what I don't like is the purple color gradient at the bottom of the image.
This problem appeared probably because I did something wrong with DBE, background neutralization, color calibration on the RGB frame.
Another explanation could be some bad calibration applying the FLATs...


Do you know how I can get rid of this purple gradient?
I am interested to remove this on the final image, and not go back and do processing from the beginning (make RGB , add L, Ha...)

This is the final FIT image you can download it here if you want to play

https://www.dropbox.com/s/goqy6fyuronybkc/HaLRGB_final.fit?dl=0

Thank you

RickS
02-09-2015, 09:07 AM
Hi Konstantinos,

A quick & dirty way to patch it up would be to use my ColorMask script (http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=7751.0). Just create a magenta mask (click on the Magenta button, leave other settings at default), apply the mask to the image and then use CurvesTransformation to reduce blue and red.

Cheers,
Rick.

konstantinos75
02-09-2015, 10:17 PM
Hi Rick

Thank you for your script.
I will try it and let you know :)

RickS
03-09-2015, 09:43 AM
Let me know if I can help. I downloaded your FITS file and it worked quite well for me.

Cheers,
Rick.