Hey, I just wanted to thank you for the great tutorial! I'm currently in an astrophotography class and this was a big help in helping me create my first color image! In class we took images of both the M13 and M51 Galaxies and now I have them in color thanks to you!
Thanks Fred, really good. I set my benchmark of expertise as those who always start with whether to check or uncheck the monochrome box in the DSS FITS tab before you stack. It was great to see were right onto this, many who given instructional tutorials on UA-cam simply forget all about this crucial step. Monochrome images should not be stacked as colour files, you want to end up with Gray/Grey files. Great video, thanks again.
Hi Ray. Thank you for your comment. Apologies it has been such a long time replying but I simply missed this post. Yes, I have noticed a lot of people missing little bits of info in their videos, which is why I decided to start doing some of my own. Indeed, grey/grey images are not often the desired result. I'm glad you got something out of it. Cheers, Fred
Thank you! A quick question on bringing together LRGB channels if in one of the channel images are Meridian flipped. I have in my images the blue channel is Meridian flipped from Red and Green. Does this get corrected during Registration on DSS?
Great video, much appreciated. Just one question - if you do have flat files in DSS, do you need to check them individually by colour when you stack the light frames, like check only green flats when stacking green lights, blue flats when stacking blue lights, etc?
Hi Matt. Thank you for your comment. Yes, you really want to stack your colour frames separately. Stack all the Red together, then stack all the Green together and then stack all the Blue together. Then when you have the three separate files for those colours, you have to put them together as different colour channels in somewhere like Photoshop, Gimp or Pixinsight. Cheers, Fred
Hey, I just wanted to thank you for the great tutorial! I'm currently in an astrophotography class and this was a big help in helping me create my first color image! In class we took images of both the M13 and M51 Galaxies and now I have them in color thanks to you!
One of the best LRGB stacking in DSS and combining channels in Photoshop videos out there. Kudos Fred!!!
Thanks Fred, really good. I set my benchmark of expertise as those who always start with whether to check or uncheck the monochrome box in the DSS FITS tab before you stack. It was great to see were right onto this, many who given instructional tutorials on UA-cam simply forget all about this crucial step. Monochrome images should not be stacked as colour files, you want to end up with Gray/Grey files. Great video, thanks again.
Hi Ray. Thank you for your comment. Apologies it has been such a long time replying but I simply missed this post. Yes, I have noticed a lot of people missing little bits of info in their videos, which is why I decided to start doing some of my own. Indeed, grey/grey images are not often the desired result. I'm glad you got something out of it. Cheers, Fred
Another great tutorial Fred. Many thanks. 👍
Thanks John. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you! A quick question on bringing together LRGB channels if in one of the channel images are Meridian flipped. I have in my images the blue channel is Meridian flipped from Red and Green. Does this get corrected during Registration on DSS?
Great video, much appreciated. Just one question - if you do have flat files in DSS, do you need to check them individually by colour when you stack the light frames, like check only green flats when stacking green lights, blue flats when stacking blue lights, etc?
Hi Matt. Thank you for your comment. Yes, you really want to stack your colour frames separately. Stack all the Red together, then stack all the Green together and then stack all the Blue together. Then when you have the three separate files for those colours, you have to put them together as different colour channels in somewhere like Photoshop, Gimp or Pixinsight. Cheers, Fred