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Old 23-11-2020, 04:52 PM
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Nikolas (Nik)
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Originally Posted by tempbark View Post
Very cool images Robert! I have almost the same imaging train (Askar FRA 400 + ASI533MC, minus the L-extreme which I am planning to acquire)!




Hi Nikolas, when you say channel separation. Are you referring to editing each RGB channel separately? (i.e. different curves adjustments, etc)
Yes and no
It's rather complicated to explain but you stack the channels separately with specific software (I use Astropixel processor) Ha and O3 then combine them using RGB combine, I use the HOO algorithm. Ha being red channel and 03 both green and blue channels.
the final image is then stretched etc in photoshop in my case, some prefer pixinsight. I also then stretch and play around with the Ha image and layer than on top of the rgb image as a luminance layer and play around further. It takes time but yields fantastic results.
This video may assist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lki-TfkrlQ&t


and these
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ixel+processor

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