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Originally Posted by TrevorW
I have been collecting at least 1.5hrs each channel however when I combine in SIRL the resulting colour image looks very washed out not very dynamic - I am applying flats, biases and darks- could these be causing an issue or do I need more data to improve colour results  |
I know nothing about SIRL. However, the most common problem of washed out colour in LRGB combination is that the luminance image is too bright. In Pixinsight it is important to keep brightest values at or below .8 (on scale of 0 to 1). Also, the colour image should not be bright.
Peter
Edit: By "bright" I mean in stretching. Don't over stretch...keep stretched values below what you want to see in the brightness of your final image. You can brighten after the LRGB combination. Adam Block has numerous videos exoplaining exactly why this is important. I don't know what other programs may do in this regard..pehaps they decrease the stretch to make the combination work, but that is only a guess.