UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
I love what I can do with my narrowband images, both HOO and SHO, in the Color Combine tool. However, after I work hard to get the colors I want and then move onto Light Pollution Correction, it changes the colors of the object sometimes dramatically. It may not be possible but are there ways to protect the object from too much color change? Should I do LPC on the individual frames before the Color Combine?
Thanks!
Yes indeed, I would personally make full integrations of the seperate narrow-band images first, then correcting them with LPC etc. and only then start to combine them.
Thanks! I'll give that a try. This is the first time in a long time - maybe since I quit using StarTools - that I'm having fun processing. I stayed up til 1:30 processing old data with APP (and watching the new Dr. Who debut on TV....). I'm a real party guy. 🤣Â
PS I'm assuming that running LPC on grayscale and then background neutralization on the color combine would be the way to go.
Those are the best nights, at least if you like trying out various things whilst sipping on a nice beer and watching Dr. Who, you won't get frustrated very fast then. 😉
Use all frames of all narrow band data at once using the "multi-filter"and if true "multi-session" option as well. Everything will then be registered, normalised etc. to each other, which maked combining that data much better in the end. LPC can be done on the seperate full integrations, not 100% sure if background neutralization would go on that as well first... something for @mabula-admin
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I didn't have beer but did have hot cocoa! I did use multifilter and multisession, three sessi0ns for two nights with one camera and one night with another camera
Those are the best nights, at least if you like trying out various things whilst sipping on a nice beer and watching Dr. Who, you won't get frustrated very fast then. 😉
Use all frames of all narrow band data at once using the "multi-filter"and if true "multi-session" option as well. Everything will then be registered, normalised etc. to each other, which maked combining that data much better in the end. LPC can be done on the seperate full integrations, not 100% sure if background neutralization would go on that as well first... something for @mabula-admin
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PS I'm assuming that running LPC on grayscale and then background neutralization on the color combine would be the way to go.
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Hi @whixson and @vincent-mod,
Yes, for grayscale use LPC, and then perform Background calibration on the RGB Combine result if needed/wanted to get a good dark gray sky background 😉
Cheers,
Mabula
