Mike Lewis
Staff Member
So for those of you who are PixInsight users, you may already know of Bill Blanshan. he has been adding a number of new process icons to PixInsight lately that are quite effective and helpful for a number of varied tasks, such as star reduction, adding luminance to RGB, adding Hα to RGB, combining RGB stars back into starless narrowband data) just to name the ones I have messed with). But I just found one that has been recently revised to version 5, that is called NB_NormalizationV5. It can be used to generate narrowband mixes based on 3 palettes (SHO, HSO, and HOO) with a number or knobs to tweak. After playing with it for a while on some previously processed data (and then watching the YouTube tutorial and playing some more) my takeaway is that it definitely adds a new quick to use tool to one's arsenal for narrowband processing. I found it useful in at least one case to improve what I already was quite happy with for a mix, and it also definitely can be used to give you a starting point to iterate from. It runs on already combined data (could be ideal for those working with OSC setups). After using just default settings initially I found lots more utility after watching the tutorial video here (which I would recommend if you truly want to understand the options available):
Free and worth looking at if you would like a new approach for your NB processing, or just want to play around a bit. I actually came away feeling pretty good about a lot of my mixes as they are, but will definitely use this tool in the future as another data point anyway. See what you think.
Here is a one click remix of my IC2177 Seagull Nebula image, which I was quite happy with to start with. But this new tool has brought out the yellow and greens a little more, making it a true 4 color mix which I like.
This is trying to be a video showing the old version followed by the remixed new version. It was a real PITA to make, hopefully it works
it was supposed to loop, but that never worked. It is just a 720p video showing the before and then the after versions...
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Free and worth looking at if you would like a new approach for your NB processing, or just want to play around a bit. I actually came away feeling pretty good about a lot of my mixes as they are, but will definitely use this tool in the future as another data point anyway. See what you think.
Here is a one click remix of my IC2177 Seagull Nebula image, which I was quite happy with to start with. But this new tool has brought out the yellow and greens a little more, making it a true 4 color mix which I like.
This is trying to be a video showing the old version followed by the remixed new version. It was a real PITA to make, hopefully it works
it was supposed to loop, but that never worked. It is just a 720p video showing the before and then the after versions...ML
