The New Adam Block Narrowband Technique

In this video I show off Adam Blocks new narrowband processing techniques using his NBColorMapper and ImageBlend scripts for PixInsight. I keep it super simple so you can see what a barebones image looks like using his technique.
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[@normanhey8016]

Thanks--watching this after seeing Adam's a few times, you have brought out the adjustments in ImageBlend a bit more clearly, at least for me. As much as Adam deserves kudos for his work, I think the real unsung hero here is Mike Cranfield for his amazing scripts. Not far behind is Frank quite honestly. We all owe them a lot! And you as well for creating content like this that helps us lesser PI users learn and improve our processing skills.

[@PaulymanAstro]

Absolutely. I’m trying to recall if I acknowledged Mike? I hope I did, I know it was in my rough script for the video.

[@coloradoastro6139]

Nice work Paul!

[@gomanastro]

thanks! this is great, and frankly more useful in learning how to do it compared to the more lengthy original from Adam. Excellent.

[@PaulymanAstro]

Thanks mate. Glad you liked it. I love Adams work, I made sure to just create a barebones simple intro to his technique.

[@seafurymike]

awesome Paul. This made more sense to me than AB’s video. How would you approach getting more detail in the structure?

[@PaulymanAstro]

In general, I would create a luminance layer to work on. That way I could independently work on the sharpness and contrast. In the case of my data I would have combined the Ha and Sii for the luminance as they had some really nice structure. To boost the fainter nebulosity in my data I would produce a mask to isolate it and then do some careful stretching with GHS. I’d do that for both the colour data and the luminance data.

[@jackbernstein3029]

Wonderful tutorial. I have all the scripts and now can put this into practice.

[@l.m2517]

Thanks Paul ! I’ll try this on my next image!

[@nikaxstrophotography]

Thanks Paul another great video

[@PaulymanAstro]

Thanks mate.

[@RigoFromSpain]

Nice Paul Thx for the simple tutorial ! like that

[@PaulymanAstro]

Thanks mate.

[@jordizn]

Thanks for this easy and fun method. Can you please tell me where I can find the StevenMillerStars Script??

[@PaulymanAstro]

The script is complete but I’m still testing at the moment, I also need to add error catching and correction before it is released into the wild.

[@petecarpenter1068]

Thanks for this tutorial Paul, do you have plans to make the star addition process based on Steve's method available at all? Many thanks.

[@PaulymanAstro]

Hi Peter. Yes it’s in the works. It is functional at this point (as you saw in the video), but I haven’t tested it with many datasets yet and haven’t built any error catching and correction yet.

[@Agepi7o]

Awesome. What about your Forax palette. It doesn't work anymore (only with pixelmath)

[@PaulymanAstro]

As far as I’m aware Foraxx Palette Utility is still working. I’ll have to check and see if I need to update the repository files.

[@thomasrider5852]

Amazing!!

[@PaulymanAstro]

Thanks Thomas.