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Emission Nebula Masterclass with PixInsight - Ultimate processing workflow (CCD)

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These videos take you through the workflow of processing GUM 15- a southern hemisphere target in the same direction as the Vela supernova remnant. Adam has kindly provided this advanced tutorial to Telescope Live members. This tutorial and many others are available on his website, www.adamblockstudios.com. Adam offers a wide range of tutorials for beginners and advanced astrophotographers. If you wish to deepen your knowledge in astrophotography, we strongly recommend subscribing to one of his plans available at www.adamblockstudios.com! The original images have been acquired with CHI-1, and are available below for download (see "Associated dataset").
SPECIFICATIONS
Tutor .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Adam Block
Parts .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 videos
Duration .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3h 51m
Image type .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Deep Sky Imaging
Difficulty level .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Advanced
Category .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Master Classes
Tier .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Premium
Software used .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... PixInsight
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PART 1
Introduction and Evaluation
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Introduction and Evaluation
PART 1
Introduction and Evaluation
16 minutes
Cosmetic Correction, Star Alignment
PART 2
Cosmetic Correction, Star Alignment
8 minutes
Image Integration
PART 3
Image Integration
14 minutes
MUREDenoise and PCC
PART 4
MUREDenoise and PCC
28 minutes
Artistic Direction and DBE
PART 5
Artistic Direction and DBE
18 minutes
Luminance and Deconvolution
PART 6
Luminance and Deconvolution
21 minutes
LRGB Combination and my Mistake
PART 7
LRGB Combination and my Mistake
16 minutes
Blue Structure Enhancement
PART 8
Blue Structure Enhancement
25 minutes
Selective Hue Shift (Red)
PART 9
Selective Hue Shift (Red)
24 minutes
Noise Reduction
PART 10
Noise Reduction
18 minutes
A Starless Preparation
PART 11
A Starless Preparation
13 minutes
FHH and Blend
PART 12
FHH and Blend
22 minutes
Final Wrap Up
PART 13
Final Wrap Up
8 minutes
PART 1

Introduction and Evaluation

Comments

Adam - Curious with Part 7 in which you explain that LRGB combination is nonlinear. When you did the DBE extraction for the luminance you were still linear. Should you use the XYZ color space to extract the Y component perform the DBE then recombine the Y component using Channel Combination?

Do you also have recommendations on how to deal with small data sets (2-4) lights from telescope live? Sensor defects are hard to fix if they don't dither.

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Very educational, holding my interest throughout. Learned many new aspects of pixinsight and looking forward to more like this.

Great tutorial! I found it very useful to run this data set through my own workflow and then compare results and see how it was created. And I always learn something new and useful in PixInsight.

Though I saw another short tutorial on BLINK that I never knew existed. Thanks to Jim Delillo for posting it. Before I began this tutorial I loaded the all the images into BLINK and quickly saw the 5 images with diagonal satellite trails. With this many image candidates to Integrate I did not include the 5 offenders with diagonal trails in the BLINK 'Copy to" function. So my working set was reduced from 116 to 111. Though obviously with small numbers in each channel to Integrate like the worst case of 3 you would need to get into other options.

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Thank you for these fantastic tutorials! Do you have a tutorial using only HSO data and processing to the most accurate, natural color? I'm still new and trying to figure out how to best get the real color incorporated into my final image. As of now they are all in the Hubble palette, which looks amazing, but I would like to be as accurate as possible.

I've tried multiple browsers, but am getting an error when trying to view "Part 2: Cosmetic Correction, Star Alignment." It says, "The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported." Is that error on my end or perhaps this one part was corrupted on upload?

Thanks again!

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