Amazing NEW Hubble Palette Method! - Luke's Rainbow SHO - Brief Tutorial

[@brianastrodoc2886]

Brilliant! Thank you for sharing your techniques.

[@lukomatico]

You are so welcome Brian!! Thanks for watching mate :-D

[@hurdpcs2802]

Luke, neat trick! The image you came up with is awesome!. I'll admit after watching you do this I'm thinking "why haven't I tried doing something like this"! I'm going to give this a roll when I have sometime this weekend. I love your channel!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you so much mate!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :-D

[@paulnaquet]

That's brillant Luke! Only thing i want is to try it myself now thank you for the inspiration and your nice videos! Cheers

[@lukomatico]

Cheers mate!! - Thanks so much for watching :-D Good luck!

[@viewintospace]

Cool stuff Luke! Have a look at the video Adam released about the Color Mark Script - having the option to chose exactly the spectrum of your color mask together with your method might open up even more doors!

[@lukomatico]

Thanks so much Sascha! I'll take a look at that for sure mate! :-D Cheers for watching!

[@sevenskiesastro]

That's a really interesting pallette you've come up there with Luke. The rainbow pallette . Keep up the good work and I hope we get some clear skies soon. All the best bud.

[@lukomatico]

Thank you Rob! Really hoping for some clear sky soon, it's been a real drag lately hasn't it! 👍👍

[@sevenskiesastro]

@@lukomatico I got an hour and half in other night but was just sorting stuff out before the blanket cloud came back!!!

[@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy]

Great tutorial on using CurvesTranformation, Luke. Great way in creating those masks and then using them to achieve the desired results.

[@lukomatico]

My pleasure Pat! Thanks so much for watching and leaving a great comment my friend 👍👍 I hope you are doing well!

[@Tony-Elliott]

Hi Luke WOW what a completely different look to the normal sho image processing, thanks for sharing your work mate

[@lukomatico]

Thanks Tony!! Super glad you enjoyed it my friend, cheers for watching!

[@SimonsAstro]

Cracking looking image Luke, I can’t wait to try this one out😀 Thanks for your hard work and sharing it with all of us mate! It’s a really simple procedure, and people should be able to follow along nicely! Great job and Clear skies!

[@lukomatico]

Thanks so much Simon mate!! I hope you have fun with it :-D it's nice to do something different sometimes hey!

[@BadYossa]

I've literally downloaded Pixinsight yesterday and have now installed the trials of The Star, Blur and Noise tools. I haven't used Photoshop since 2008, so this can only go well. I've had a few days off, and whilst most people would be doing things around the house etc, I chose to binge on tutorials and "how to's". My head is buzzing with sensory overload! Great vid Luke. You're an inspiration mate!

[@lukomatico]

Haha!! Oh mate, talk about diving in at the deep end! :-D Seriously though, I actually think you're doing it the right way by learning with the best programs right away, rather than learning on something that'll just be a stopgap! Good on ya for getting stuck in I say mate :-) Clear skies!

[@josephluciani5531]

Brilliant! Gotta hand it to you Luke, your creativity is amazing. You’re a true artist using the night sky as your palette. The colors are staggeringly beautiful. Thank you for sharing and teaching.

[@lukomatico]

Thank you so much Joe my friend! you'll be having tons of fun with your setup soon I'm sure! :-D

[@mashpotatomountainobserver3338]

These processing lessons have really helped get through the winter while improving editing skills. Perfect timing, Luke.

[@lukomatico]

I'm really glad you like them mate! Makes it all worthwhile :-D Clear skies to you!

[@gregerianne3880]

Great, creative technique for making images pop and standout, Luke! Thanks so much.

[@lukomatico]

Thanks very much for watching Greg!! 👍👍

[@astrodueso2530]

Hello Luke, it seems to me a very good system to get that rainbow that you mention. I saw him practice and then I will show it to all my fellow fans. Thank you very much for your great contribution. From Spain receive a cordial greeting.

[@lukomatico]

Fantastic! Thanks so much for watching and leaving a positive comment my friend, clear skies! :-D

[@SimonT65]

Very impressive final image and excellent workfkow tutorial. Well done Luke

[@lukomatico]

Many thanks Simon! Happy to hear you liked the workflow my friend 👍👍

[@petesastrophotography]

Excellent video once again Luke. Will definitely be trying this out. I intend doing far more SHO and HOO work with my new imaging rig so this technique is going to be very useful👍

[@lukomatico]

Sounds superb Pete!! Hope that you find some of this useful my friend, Good luck with your new rig!! :-D

[@markellis1253]

super work Luke .. love it !!!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you! Cheers Mark!

[@d.fresh.750]

Very cool technique, Luke! Oh yeah, and I think I'm about to grab a PlayerOne Uranus-C, thanks to your positive videos on their cameras. Looking forward to getting back to some astro, after far too long of a break!

[@lukomatico]

Thanks bud!! :-D I think you'll love the Uranus-C, really nice cam! Good luck with your return to astro too 👍👍

[@d.fresh.750]

@lukomatico thanks! I'm probably going to pair it with my Samyang 135mm lens for the summer. Did a little exploring with Stellarium, and there should be lots of fun targets for that image scale, with some interesting mosaic prospects!

[@photonwell8972]

@D. Fresh A few years back I used to image with Meade DSI II & III in LRGB but only had occasional success. Based on Lukomatico's recommendation I bought this camera 3 months back. Absolutely cracking little camera that has given me my best astroimages ever. HH & Rosette thru a WO Zenithstar 71 with L-Extreme filter are my background images on the 4K tv. Yep, they look that good.... You'll want PixInsight or similar as well for the processing. Many thanks for all your work @Lukomatico!

[@d.fresh.750]

@Photon Well That's awesome to hear! I JUST ordered mine, and working on getting a few more accessories for this rig. I also have a Z73 I can pair with the new camera. It will be a while until I can justify Pixinsight, so I'll have to continue with Siril & Photoshop to process for now. So many tutorials are for PI though! 🙄

[@lukomatico]

So glad to hear people enjoying this camera as much as I have been!! :-D clear skies!

[@RumourHasitYT]

Call it a ZBG image. Zippy Bungle and George 😂. Great image Luke, thanks for showing us how to get this effect

[@lukomatico]

Haha!! I had to Google what that was Tom! 😂 not a bad idea! Thanks for watching mate 👍👍

[@briankotak403]

Really great way to put a rainbow punch to the image. Rosette Nebula is a perfect candidate for the method too. Will be trying this out for sure. Thanks Luke! Dr B from Manitoba, Canada 🇨🇦

[@lukomatico]

Wonderful to hear that! Thanks so much for watching and leaving a positive message Brian, hope you have a great day my friend! :-D

[@obafgkm30108]

Thank you Luke! I am curious if applying blurrX before adding the stars back to the image will enhance the image?

[@lukomatico]

Hey mate! - that's a good question, I think you may get a degree of sharpening going on but I've actually never tried it so can't say for sure!

[@ianhagan7656]

Good Job Bob as they say on Children's TV. I absolutely love this Luke. Cant wait to see what the purists think though

[@lukomatico]

Thank you Ian!! I'm glad you liked it mate 👍👍

[@georgedicker9789]

Yet another amazing video :) how did you get the image to looking how it does before you did any editing, with the blue and yellow in the image?

[@lukomatico]

Hey mate! Thank you 👍 To get the image to the starting point you may want to check out my recent video on narrowband normalisation 👍 cheers!

[@ProtoDestro]

Execellent!...you coud use this tecnique on a base OSC image or is better an Dual Band image like L-Extreme?

[@lukomatico]

Thanks Andrea! - You can use it on a dual-band image yeah, it's less effective but still pretty good! :-) Cheers!

[@anthonygraham6449]

Thanks for all the great videos. Have a question on this. OSC I see how you went about it. I just don’t know or understand why your image is green to start with. That is a major requirement for this to work. What adjustment are you making to the image before starting the process. Thank you.

[@lukomatico]

Thanks mate! - The image is generally green to start with when you've done no background extraction/light pollution removal - you can preview it without the green if you'd like by 'unlinking' the STF stretch by clicking the little chain icon next to it :-)

[@anthonygraham6449]

I usually stack in app and save the fits unstreched. But mine is always red with black background. I’ll play around with it. But I’m doing something or importing it in a way that it is color correcting it. You have green and yellow on a ha target. So something is amiss with how we are starting.

[@CDigata]

This is Awesome Luke, well done and described Tut, ive also been playing with the new ColorMask mod4

[@lukomatico]

Cheers Chris mate!! I'll have to check out the colour mask thing, I've just been using Bill's tools myself! 👍 Clear skies mate :-D

[@stuparker776]

Hi Luke looks great ,question can you do something similar with either HOO or a one shot colour dual band image or do you need the S Cheers mate for your efforts I will work on this tonight when I get home from work

[@lukomatico]

Thanks Stu! - You can indeed use this method of processing on your OSC images yeah, of course it does work best with a discrete S channel, but still works with dualband data :-) Cheers!

[@nikaxstrophotography]

Nice easy process mate it is such an easy process that makes it look spectacular, I think it can be used in HOO and other colour combinations as well

[@lukomatico]

Thank you! Really appreciate it Nik, glad you enjoyed mate 👍👍

[@Maximus0389]

Amazing Idea Luke 😎🤘🏻

[@lukomatico]

Thanks so much mate! 😁

[@DSOImager]

Digging those greens! :)

[@lukomatico]

Thanks so much James! Means a lot hearing that from you mate 👍👍

[@nigelprice4480]

Great tutorial and I really like the rainbow colour palette. I use OSC, can you use this on a OSC image ?

[@lukomatico]

You can indeed Nigel! - It's less effective, but still very good and well worth a look! :-) Clear skies!

[@crm114.]

Fantastic final image! Thanks for sharing. What was your starting point? An integrated SHO, normalized image?

[@lukomatico]

You've got it mate yeah! It was just a fresh combined SHO image with "correct magenta stars" passed over it as far as I remember! :-) Cheers for watching Cliff!

[@edjones3390]

Not using narrow band, but might give this a test with my regular RGB - cheers!

[@lukomatico]

It's a great technique for creating accurate masks I think! :-D should work well 👍 cheers for watching!

[@KaidenBainAstro]

if my raw stack doesnt have any blues in this im not able to follow this tutorial right? im messing with the curves transformation and only the background goes blue with none of the nebulosity in the middle. My image is 15x300 dual narrowband in Ha and O3

[@lukomatico]

It'll definitely be a challenge mate! - If you get the chance to add more data before giving it a go, then definitely do that - everything is easier with deeper data! :-) Good luck my friend!

[@KaidenBainAstro]

@@lukomatico thank you! I definitely plan on getting more data for this but the weather and Rosettes spot in the sky right now makes it a double challenge.

[@stephane153]

Your tutorials are very good, keep up the good work.

[@lukomatico]

Thanks so much Stephane!! 👍👍

[@cccard2491]

Outstanding!!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you!! :-)

[@redabdab]

Hi Luke. You don’t explain what the starting image is. It already looks quite processed. Is it from an OSC or have you shot in mono and combined? This is pretty crucial starting info to be omitting. Thanks

[@lukomatico]

Hey Stuart! - I thought I mentioned in the video mate? It's freshly combined nonlinear SHO data :-) Hope that helps and sorry if I forgot it!

[@redabdab]

@@lukomatico thanks Luke. I’m going to try this for sure. Looks great!

[@paulholdsworth2502]

This is awesome Luke !! Love the little pops of green in the image that contrasts with the copper, golds, and teal. Just wondering how close you could get to this using OSC data with say the l extreme filter. I reckon a follow up video from OSC data would go down a storm ! Anyway mate cracking technique to use the sacrificial clones for the masks......brilliant piece of work 👏👍

[@lukomatico]

Thanks Paul mate!! - I reckon a OSC version would be a great idea yeah, thanks for the suggestion! :-) Glad the sacrificial clone idea came across well, I was chuffed to figure that out even if it's really quite simple haha! Clear skies and thanks for watching!

[@PRASTRO]

Beautiful 👍🏻💪🏻👍🏻!!!!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you! Cheers! :-D

[@SteveHookEm]

Hey, when I use Curves to bring up the RGB channels, only a very slight movement makes the entire image Red (or B, G). Pulling down the shadow side doesn’t lower the darks. It pulls all the color out. I literally can only move the line 1/16” or so before the color is either fully red or gone. Any idea what is going on? I have Medusa with a Quad band filter. A screen stretch shows all the colors. But I can’t enhance like you do.

[@lukomatico]

Hey mate! Data often behaves like that if you're trying to stretch while already viewing the STF stretched data, - make sure your data is stretched/nonlinear first, and that STF is reset 👍 Good luck!

[@SteveHookEm]

@@lukomatico Okay so I’ve opened the stacked file. To see the nebula, I run an unlinked STF. Then select curves? What do I do first?

[@SteveHookEm]

Before opening curves, do STF to Histogram Teansformation? Then start?

[@lukomatico]

@@SteveHookEm that would do the trick mate yeah 👍

[@SteveHookEm]

Thanks! That's it. BTW, what object is this? (new guy)@@lukomatico

[@AZ4Runner]

This is really cool Luke!

[@lukomatico]

Thanks Jason!! :-D

[@Steve_The_Ignorant_Astronomer]

Hey Luke , Was wondering if you ever did a video on meridian flips using EQmod and NINA ? I cant get it to work... If you did not thanks anyway

[@lukomatico]

Hey Steve! When setting up your sequence in NINA make sure you turn on the 'meridian flip' switch mate, that'd be my first guess - also check that eqmod is set correctly if that doesn't work 👍 I've not done a video on it yet I'm afraid!

[@Steve_The_Ignorant_Astronomer]

@@lukomatico So Luke , first off thanks for getting back to me.. So yesterday I went into the boob and sat with the scope trying to figure it out , and after about an hour and 30 mins I solved the problem. I DID NOT TICK THE BUTTON TO DO FLIP !!!!!! LOOSER !!!!! But then I had another problem for about 30 mins , it was hitting limits when not even close to hitting anything, so finally I got it... Never say Die !!!!!Thank you again for getting back to me. Make sure weather is good for my trip there on May 26 or will hold you responsible...

[@ziyadel-ghazi7755]

Hello Luke, I hope that you're doing well. Thank you so much for this interesting video. I really enjoyed it. Please, can you make a video showing how fo do it with only free softwares like SIRIL and Photoshop? As well as how to make SHO rainbow colorized edits from HOO image (no SII, for those having only a Narrowband filter ) That would be extremely appreciated, I've been searching for this kind of tutorial for months, untill I fell on you viddo, but unfortunately I don't have Pixinsight. Thank you so much in advance. Best regards

[@P00P2OO]

Can we do this with an osc data?

[@lukomatico]

You kind of can mate yeah, it's a little bit harder to get right but still doable - not quite as pretty as mono turns out but still, very nice!

[@Excessus1978]

Nice. I work in PS after doing the stretch in PI. I do a similar edit like you did, but with masks in PS.

[@lukomatico]

Good to know! Thanks for watching mate 👍

[@Mel-127]

May not be correct. And i suppose some will nag you for it. But as an artistic view its brilliant. Ide hang it up. Plus you've had great fun doing it, aslo its distracted you from long cloudy nights, which is good. Its different. Great. Nice one Luke.

[@lukomatico]

I appreciate the positive feedback Mel!! I like it too mate, though I'll never please everyone hey :-D Clear skies!

[@deep_space_dave]

Wow this looks really cool! For some reason the way you colored the Rosette looks more natural? Or maybe it is more aesthetically pleasing to the eye 🙂 Either way excellent idea and I have to try this one day. Thanks and CS!

[@lukomatico]

Thanks Dave!! :-D I love the way images can turn out with this👌 Hope you have a great weekend ahead buddy!

[@dumpydalekobservatory]

Great stuff mate one day I'll get rid of this old PC & get Pixinsight lol

[@lukomatico]

Haha! Well, PixInsight isn't going anywhere hey mate! As long as you're having fun, keep on doing what you're doing! :-D Clear skies!

[@dexmeyer3777]

Thanks!

[@lukomatico]

Thanks so much my friend!! 👍👍

[@bezain7663]

The process is nice to show ( even if actually you can get the same result by a selective curve manipulation). Unfortunately I find you pushed it a bit too far, colors look over saturated and unnatural ( as far as "natural" might mean something in SHO). Anyway for the sake of demonstration, it is usefull.

[@lukomatico]

Thanks for the feedback mate! - It'll certainly not be to all tastes, but I like it at least! :-D Clear skies!

[@kamylko]

Perfect video. Just please, the constant smacking of your lips makes me just use autogenerated caption. Take it as a feedback please. Thank you for your videos.

[@lukomatico]

I've sorted this for later videos, thanks for the feedback!