This is another in a series of concise tutorials on working with Pixinsight. It is geared towards new astrophotographers and those just learning Pixinsight.

This video deals with the high-level workflow for processing Narrowband SHO images.

Sometimes getting a 50,000 ft view of what you are doing is helpful. It also gives a bit of a framework for other aspects we will be covering in this series.

I also plan on doing another to discuss an LRGB workflow.

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UPDATE: I should note that this chart comes from a particular project where I extracted my stars from the Luminance channel rather than the SHO color image.

I do that sometimes.

It is equally valid to extract your stars from the color SHO image. You can then process them to ensure you have the color you want, and you can avoid any funkiness.

I do that sometimes as well.

Since the color from SHO Narrowband is, by definition, false color, I often don't like how the stars look. So I try different ways on each image and make a call based on my reference.

In my mind, the best way to is to capture RGB data of the stars along with the Narrowband data, extract true color RGB stars and add them to the final image. When I have clear skies and the ability to capture this RGB data, I do that. This, in my option - gives the very best look in the final image.

I don't always have that luxury so I play with different ways and pick what think looks better for a given image.

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