Let's Process The Rosette Nebula! - Data Provided - Mono Narrowband Pixinsight Tutorial

[@mickford9383]

Best Pixinsight tutorial video on KZbin, hands down... Worked brilliantly on my images... Thank you...

[@lukomatico]

Thank you so much for that Mick!! So glad it's worked well for you mate 👍👍 Clear skies!

[@avt_astro206]

Beautiful Shot of Rosetta! Nice Colours! Brilliant Workflow. Clear Skies Friend!👍🏻

[@lukomatico]

Thank you very much indeed DSH! - I always appreciate what you have to say my friend 👍 Clear skies!

[@Wilfredos_Astrophotography]

I just upgraded to a mono chrome camera. Thank you for making this video as it has been a huge help for me getting going.

[@lukomatico]

So glad to hear that my friend!! :-D

[@peterkudzinowski1274]

Nice one Luke. Beautiful image 👍👍

[@lukomatico]

I'm glad you enjoyed it Peter, thank you very much mate! :)

[@KNMArve]

Thank you for this tutorial. I just loved the easy step by step process ! Have recently purchased Pixinsight after using Photoshop for years, and this video was spot on for my level of competence. Well done :)

[@lukomatico]

Hey Arve! - That's just wonderful feedback to hear, thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts my friend! :-) I'm really glad it was helpful to you! All the very best, Clear skies!

[@AstroDork]

Lovely straightforward guide for PI. Everything nicely explained but still concise. On top of all that you share your raw data which frankly is a rare thing and I should think a great many people are as grateful as I am. It's good for those who havent started yet, or even those who only intend to process data, to get a good at well acquired data so they (and me obvs) can compare their blobby stars and washed out images and have a better idea whats good and whats not. Keep up the good work and thanks again

[@lukomatico]

I really appreciate your perspective Dan, thanks so much for your lovely comment my friend 👍👍 I'm so happy to hear you've found it useful!

[@ScottDavies]

Lots of great steps here Luke! Thank you :)

[@lukomatico]

Hey Scott! - Thanks very much mate, it's my pleasure to share these videos with you! Hope you have a great weekend mate :-)

[@ScottDavies]

@@lukomatico Hi Luke! Cheers mate and thanks for the tips on Pixinsight 👍👍Working on my Heart Nebula right now and it's going great 😊 HaRGB. Now to buy the Oiii and Sii 😁😄

[@Kroller9]

Thanks for this video, i am kind of new on pixinsight and thanks to you i got amazing results!

[@lukomatico]

Awesome to hear that!! Thanks for watching 👍👍

[@RigoFromSpain]

Very well done Luke, nice tutorial, keep them coming !

[@lukomatico]

I'll do my best for sure to keep them coming Rigobert, thank you very much for watching my friend! 👍👍

[@astrojourneyuk]

Some great new tips in this video that I’m going to try out with my Rosette Nebula. Thank you for sharing how you process. Oh so much to learn!!!

[@lukomatico]

Hey Marc! - Thank you mate, I appreciate the feedback :-) I hope you have fun with it and find it useful! Clear skies :)

[@tonyclark1504]

Well done Luke - thanks for taking the time to produce.

[@lukomatico]

Thank you for watching Tony! I appreciate your time mate! Clear skies!

[@bfgmetalworks]

Thank you for this video, I'm just starting to use Pixinsight ( I know , I'm late to the party ) and your videos has helped so much. You have made such great videos with helping me and many others with Pixinsight .. Thank you !

[@lukomatico]

My pleasure mate, thank you ever so much for watching and taking the time to share your thoughts! :-) So much has changed with pixinsight and my workflow in general that I really should redo these tutorials soon, but I'm glad to see they are still functional!! Clear skies and good luck to you my friend, pixinsight is a heck of a tool!

[@walterhaase]

Another great and simple editing video that I can wrap my newbie head around :) Thanks again!

[@lukomatico]

Great to hear! - Thank you for watching my friend!

[@Astrolavista]

Brilliant tutorial brimming with tips! and all with a sore throat to boot. Feel better soon mate : )

[@lukomatico]

Thank you Chris! The throat is mostly fixed, I just feel as flat as a stamp now instead! 😂😂 I'll be sorted in no time I'm sure 👍 Thank you for watching matey, I hope you have a brilliant weekend!

[@JoesAstrophoto]

Nice mono processing tutorial Luke!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you very much Joe! - I'd love to do a really comprehensive one sometime but it'd end up an hour long haha! I hope it helps a few people find their feet in Pix anyhow :-) Clear skies mate!

[@zorbat5]

Getting into astrophotography and waiting on receiving my first setup. This is very nice to have. Learned a lot! Thank you!

[@lukomatico]

Great to hear my friend!! Thank you so much :-) I really do wish you all the very best of luck with your first setup, such an exciting time!! Congratulations and clear skies!

[@kantoskan4314]

Working on my first mono image today, in fact (although the Sii filter is on back-order for a couple of weeks). This is precisely the tutorial I need. Thanks again!

[@lukomatico]

That's fantastic Michael! - I hope your Sii filter gets to you soon, that'll be a lot of fun to add into the mix for you :-) RE: the tutorial, I actually just on Friday released a new version of this! If you are looking for more material to digest on the subject then it might be right along the lines of what you're looking for! :-) Good luck & clear skies!

[@DeanLouviere]

I love how the Hubble pallet looks I am just starting astrophotography and your work is so cool.

[@lukomatico]

Thank you very much Dean! - I hope you have loads of fun as you get started in astrophotography, it's an amazing thing to do! I hope you have a great weekend mate :-)

[@DavesAstrophotography]

Very useful Luke, love the final results!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you so much Dave! - I'm happy with how it turned out mate! :-)

[@keithhanssen7413]

Thanks, Luke! Your dialogue as you’re working in PI is very good. I’ll be sure and check out your other PI videos as we seem to work very similarly.

[@lukomatico]

Hey Keith! - thank you for that feedback mate, that's really good to hear! 👍👍 I'll have to revisit my older tutorials I think as I feel I've moved on a fair bit since I recorded my early ones! :-) Thank you so much for watching mate, All the best, Luke 👍

[@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy]

Hi Luke, This tutorial is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I am diving into narrowband monochrome astronomy and needed to know more about how to merge the data. I am currently working on M16 but only have a few hours of HA and Oxygen .... Thank you CLOUDS very much. I plan to capture more O3 and a complete round of Sulfur when the clouds clear out, whenever that might be. At least the moon is moving away. Again, thank you for this great tutorial. Take care of that sore throat.

[@lukomatico]

Hey Pat! - I hope you'll soon be able to capture that Sulfur data, that'll really help set m16 off like a firecracker! I'm really glad that the tutorial is useful for you, that's really very encouraging to hear! Extremely interested to hear where your new avenues into Monochrome are going to lead, good times are ahead my friend! All the very best wishes, Luke

[@SharpStarAstro]

Great image and video Luke!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you very much SharpStar Astro, I appreciate it mate! 👍

[@davidrousseau8066]

Hi Luke, another excellent tutorial! ;-)

[@lukomatico]

Hey there David! - Awesome to hear that, I'm really glad you liked it! - I'd just like to say thank you so much for choosing to join my channel by the way, I genuinely do appreciate the support - Thank you! Clear skies my friend :-)

[@davidrousseau8066]

@@lukomatico Luke, you are very welcome! You put so much effort in the content you produce, it is more than deserved :) Cheers!

[@CosmuzzAstro]

I wasn't able to follow along Luke as I don't have PixInsight, but still downloaded the data and had some fun in PS. Ended up with a very slight hint of green and yellow on the edge but its mainly red and blue. Also did a starless version. Thanks for providing a great data set. Nice image and video mate and thanks for the mention with the other members at the end, it's a nice touch.

[@lukomatico]

Hey there Ben! Thank you so much for giving the data a go anyway mate, I hope that you still had some fun regardless! :-) If you get the chance then I'd love to see how it turned out for you! - no worries at all if not though 👍👍 I hope you didn't mind the credit at the end mate, I just want to say thank you in some way for your support!! I'm hoping to do it in each video going forth for people :-) I hope you have a brill weekend mate!

[@CosmuzzAstro]

@@lukomatico Ill see if I can ping it across on you email mate, give me your honest thoughts on it.

[@OutlandishJourneys]

A+ Astrophotographer and A+ Editing Tutor...nice upload, Luke! Really learned a lot on this one, cheers! :)

[@lukomatico]

Hey mate! - haha, you're too kind!! Thank you very much indeed for the encouraging words :-) I'm reallly glad you found this useful! All the best & clear skies!

[@RaysAstrophotography]

Awesome Luke!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you very much Ray!! :-)

[@OlliesSpace]

As always Luke super great pacing of the tutorial which I think is key. Full of great tips, I wonder as a newbee to PI, is the morphological at the end equivalent to a curve stretch to reduce stars or do you find it works better. Nice result Mate, clear skies to you.

[@lukomatico]

Hey Ollie! - thanks for the brill feedback matey!! - I really appreciate you taking the time to leave your thoughts like that :-) Re: morphological transformation, I think it works better than a destretch as star size and in some ways shape seem to be physically manipulated by the tool, it'd be interesting to experiment with both though of course! :-) All the best mate, I hope you are getting some skies! Luke

[@douweodh4146]

Haha, I’ve never seen anyone adding that many samples with that speed in DBE! Nice work, cheers!

[@lukomatico]

Haha :D I wondered if people would laugh at that bit! It does look a bit mad, works pretty well though! 😅 Thank you for watching mate :-) 👍

[@davepastern]

I find that if there's not a dense amount of stars in your image, going with larger DBE samples also helps with correcting field issues etc. I tend to do a division, and then a subtraction. And I tend to use DBE on each channel before combining, but everyone has different preferences and pretty much all methods work well. It's just what you are used to!

[@lukomatico]

@@davepastern All roads lead to Rome! :-D

[@davepastern]

@@lukomatico yup!

[@paulholdsworth2502]

Great video Luke !! I really like your straightforward approach to pixinsight . Since watching your previous pixinsight tutorial for osc I'm now using your exact workflow and have saved all the processes on the right hand side. Going to do the same now for mono. The only question I have on this tutorial is when would do noise reduction and which type ? Thanks Luke

[@lukomatico]

Hey there Paul! - I really appreciate your lovely comment and useful feedback mate! - thank you :-) You make a very good point regarding noise reduction on this one, I'd personally do it at the end before saving and use TGVDenoise most likely, but turned down to about 2 strength (I think it comes on at 5) - I hope that helps! 👍👍 Thank you for watching my friend!

[@davepastern]

Paul - I personally use MLT in linear state and then TGVdenoise right near the end in non-linear state. Each to their own. I'm usually very careful with my noise reduction levels and adjust on a per image basis.

[@DSOImager]

Very nice Luke.. DarkStructureEnhance... never used that one before. I'll need to play with it.. thanks :)

[@lukomatico]

Hey there mate! - I love using DSH, it works really well just about every time i've ever used it - quite a reliable tool it seems! Thank you very much for watching :-)

[@davepastern]

it's a really nice script. I personally tend to ONLY use it on my LUM channel data. Straight out defaults. Most of these days I do a blend of the original image and a DSE adjusted image via PixInsight. My trick is: 1. clone original image twice 2. invert clone #1 and add as a mask to original image (protecting the nebulosity but not background with the mask) 3. apply DSE on clone #2 4. combine via PixelMath using: (original+dse)/2 you'll want single expression ticked, save as new image, and original colour space selected. This PixelMath expression averages the images out when combining them. PixelMath is your friend. This limits the effects of the DSE script to a smaller selection of areas on the original image. Masks are YOUR friend in PI. Use them, use them often, and use them well. They will only benefit your final image imho. Note: I use this method because you CANNOT use DSE script on an image with a mask. Hope this helps!

[@DSOImager]

@@davepastern Thanks mrtheoden! Looks like you've got some good stuff on your channel too. CS!

[@davepastern]

@@DSOImager I don't really have a lot of my channel, but I hope to do a bit more on PI in the long term future to help others. I don't really understand video editing though, so not sure how good any subsequent videos will be!

[@galactus012345]

Thanks a lot Luke, that's help me in my processing journey. I love this concrete didactic way Just a suggestion, could you use a tool in order to add a yellow circle around the mouse pointer, it is hard sometimes to see where you click

[@lukomatico]

Hey there mate! - Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment, It's appreciated :-) - I'll try to see about a tool for pointer visibility, it's a good suggestion for sure! Thank you so much

[@tomtoka]

An another amazing video, how do you know the HSHO sequence, you are guessing it?

[@lukomatico]

Hey mate! HSHO has been done for a while I think, it works out well on a lot of targets 👍

[@Zealor365]

Great Tutorial

[@lukomatico]

Glad it was helpful Mark! :-) Clear skies mate!

[@davepastern]

Awesome video Luke and thank you for the practice data. Will have a crack at this later on today. My workflow is more involved than yours a a fair bit different!

[@lukomatico]

Hey mate! Awesome stuff, can't wait to hear how it turns out for you! :-) Clear skies!

[@davepastern]

@@lukomatico turned out very different to yours - I still suck at colours imho. But, I still have my L plates on with PI.

[@SimonsAstro]

Nice vid Luke! I’m thinking more and more of getting PiInsight, still got to get fully to grips with PS! Nice chilled out vibe music! Could have fallen asleep 😀 Not your tutorial mate!! Just tired from last night! Hope you get some clear skies soon 👍

[@lukomatico]

Hey Simon mate! - I'm glad you liked the video, much thanks for watching! :-) Great to hear the music was relaxing mate, only maybe TOO relaxing by the sound of it 😂😂👍 I hope you have a brill weekend matey, and hopefully some clear skies!

[@davepastern]

bypass PS and go to PI mate. But beware PI can appear difficult to learn. It just takes time and practice (lots of practice). It's important to get a good workflow, and learn how to best use the basic, everyday common tools.

[@Kiauze]

Have to say I'm not a fan of the hubble palette, but your final image looks absolutely stunning!

[@lukomatico]

Thank you Tiago!! - that's very kind of you to say :-) I hope you have a brilliant weekend mate 👍

[@sajjadahmed46]

Nice video.. How do you capture the screen?? 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@lukomatico]

Hey Sajjad! - I use nvidia shadowplay for screen recording as I have an nvidia graphics card anyway :-) hope that helps mate!

[@sajjadahmed46]

@@lukomatico looks like I'm gonna have to do some research 😂

[@DavesAstrophotography]

OBS Studio is great for capture, as you can select the whole display or individual app windows, as well as overlay webcams or audio etc.

[@danjensen9425]

Hey my osc data has improved tremendously with your videos and scripts . But before that happened I bought a narrowband set up complete with eaf efw 3/4nb Baader filter set . Along with this great setup and learning curve came the oiii halos and to some degree in ha . There is a halo remove script in pixinsight but only one video on that tool and its no help for me. can you do a video on removing halos . Thanks again

[@lukomatico]

That's superb to hear Dan! - RE: halos, i'll have to look into a future video for that kinda thing mate, it's not something i've tried to cover yet! Thanks for watching!

[@framinash]

Is it me, or the video is a bit fuzzy? Great explanation though!

[@lukomatico]

Hey there! - I appreciate the feedback, I've just sat down and had another look and I do see what you're saying, it's just a touch soft! - it seems to happen to all my videos really, even though the file pre-upload looks good! :-( Thank you for watching and letting me know! - I could do with re - recording these type of tutorials now I have a better mic too 🎤👍

[@davepastern]

Hi Luke - finally had a chance to process your lovely data! My final image turned out very different to yours, but I have a very different style and visual approach. Are you OK with me adding it on instagram and tagging you (we follow each other on Instagram - I'm "downunderastro".

[@lukomatico]

Hey mate! Sure thing, I'd love to see how it looks! :-) thanks for taking the time to have a process and use your own differing styles, it keeps things interesting 👍👍

[@davepastern]

@@lukomatico it sure does! I'll upload onto instagram in a moment, Just upstairs grabbing a midnight snack (I'm in Brissie, Aussieland lol). It's 12.45am here.

[@davepastern]

@@lukomatico here we go: instagram.com/p/CSUWDJqpzgg/ processed in PI with a more complex workflow than the One demonstrated here in your tutorial video (it doesn't mean my workflow is better!). Pretty happy with how it came out. I tend to go with bigger DBE samples and I also use both division and subtraction. I use masks quite a fair bit at various points in my workflow too, especially with adjusting colours. I have learned several things from your various tutorial videos though and I'm putting them to use in my workflow where possible. I've only been using PixInsight for around 6 weeks now. My DSO rig is not up and running yet as I need several things still and I'm currently unemployed, so no money to get them. I've been practising on data from telescope.live and data kindly provided by other users. I have a long way to go with PixInsight, but gradually learning more and more and I'm way more comfortable now than I was 6 weeks ago!!!!

[@lukomatico]

Awesome mate, just checked it out! 👍 Thank you for sharing :-)

[@davepastern]

@@lukomatico glad you liked it! This is such a subjective "art form".