The Art Of Processing The Pillars of Creation

[@RigoFromSpain]

Steven, I was waiting for this video once you mentioned it in FB, it was worth the waiting, man what a BEAUTY it is...PERFECTO !!!!

[@enteringintospace4685]

Awesome....Thanks!

[@dittmanthemandan9617]

Great teaching, I have learned so much from you over the past 2 years. You have motivated and inspired me more than any other astro channel . Got the 533 mono when you did and have a lot of the same equipment, thanks for all the help, Just so you know I went to college in Lakeland FL 28 years ago , I don't miss those big Mosquitoes.

[@enteringintospace4685]

Lol....yeah when you flock them off you can hear them hit the ground....lol. Really appreciate the kind words, it inspiring! Let me know how you're image turns out!

[@dittmanthemandan9617]

I was able to follow your processing video with your data almost verbatim. Learned so much from your video and was able to make an outstanding picture, well, it is your picture, but I just wanted you to know it turned out fantastic. Thanks 😊 sent you the picture by email for you to grade,

[@williamhouse5081]

I haven't watched this one yet but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say great video!!! They always are.

[@enteringintospace4685]

Lol...its a pretty safe bet, plus I give you data to play with. It's like a Happy Meal😊

[@kevannoble5550]

Russell Croman = Xterminator! Steven Miller = Colourise Process! You’re owning it Steven! Love your new process and enjoying reprocessing my old SHO images. Your resulting Pillars of Creation image is stunning. Really enjoy your videos, so keep them coming 👍

[@enteringintospace4685]

Hey really appreciate the positive feedback!!

[@SPACEJUNKastro]

Lot to learn from this video. Great work, thanks. Keep them coming

[@jacquesbeauropert]

excellente démonstration.👍

[@grigoryvidishev1810]

Thank you Steve for the great video! I see that you use Lum stars, and discarded narrow band stars completely. Lum stars don't have color, how you could add to them some color. My preferred method is to shoot RGB stars separately and add to a NB image, but when you don't have them what can you do?

[@enteringintospace4685]

Thanks! I think you'll find the the luminance stars will actually pick up the surrounding colors. In narrowband imaging the goal is to map the colors to distinguish the gas interactions. Stars at that point are really irrelevant. The reason I pull the colored stars is I usually use my ha data as a luminance and those stars are typically smaller the oiii and sii. Overlaying the smaller stars usually causes dark over saturated circles around the stars.

[@briandejong2713]

Another well produced instructional video Steve! One question I have is how do we retain the star colors?

[@enteringintospace4685]

Thanks! For narrowband images I usually process the stars separately.

[@duanemelvin292]

I did standard Hubble palette in Pixinsight cause I am lazy - but yours looks better thanks Steve for your teaching ability A++

[@enteringintospace4685]

Hey sorry for the late response. KZbin notifications stink! Thanks so much!

[@geldingmakr]

Awesome work on this👏👏🔭📸

[@enteringintospace4685]

Thanks!!

[@ianhagan7656]

Hi Steve. A question. When you create a luminance image you use Image Integration over Channel Combination and extract luminance. Why that option? Strikes me that the latter is a simpler process to achieve the same result. What subtlety am I missing?

[@yc_astrophotography6513]

Thank you Steve for a great video! I want to try my hand at processing your files and requested access to download them. But when I received permission and downloaded these it seems that the Ha file is provided twice as the Ha download and the Sii download. Can you please check and make the Sii available for download?

[@enteringintospace4685]

Sorry for the confusion I have it fixed now!

[@yc_astrophotography6513]

@@enteringintospace4685 thank you!

[@GünterSchlupp]

Hallo , leider kommt bei mir bei den sii Ordner nur das ha Bild . Grüße ausDeutschland

[@RigoFromSpain]

Woop woop😂

[@enteringintospace4685]

Hell yeah!!

[@cameron1376]

Your google files are locked :)

[@enteringintospace4685]

Thanks for the heads up I'll look into it!