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Thanks for the detailed info, Ivo. :D All starting to make sense now on the bias sliders. And yes I think only one time - not my own data - did I have to max a slider out yet still thought there was more there if I could keep sliding. Indeed a filter scenario. Might have been trying to reveal the sq...

Amazing, as usual! :bow-yellow: So, the Snow Collar Galaxy also has two different NGC designations, which threw me off for a few minutes. I wonder why that is. I am unable to find a name for the elusive companion you picked up, even if I turn on every DSO catalog that Stellarium offers. And I have t...

Thanks again Ivo. That is interesting. So each channel is really adjusted independently. But I presume it is the 3D nature of each pixel that makes it appear that the effect is relativistic. Well, it guess it actually truly is relativistic the way the three channels create final pixel colors. And th...

Thanks Ivo, appreciate the time as it is clear you've been busy! :thumbsup: And most of the time when a post doesn't get traction I just figure I probably asked a really dumb question. :lol: Great, so the slider values are linear multipliers (or dividers). I am going to have to look up what that mea...

Hi Wayne, What I would do is, in Compose, load your single finished stack into R, G, and B. Same file three times. Then in the drop down menu above the files, select bicolor from OSC/DSLR. The actual name is longer, but that's the one to use as it will take advantage of your 2xG pixels in the Bayer ...

Hmm, let me see if it lets me do this....Ivo's post and graphic are here: https://forum.startools.org/viewtopic.php?p=11013#p11013 I refer back to it every now and then as it is a good explanation, and the example is tailored for HOO. But yes the meaning of white is described, as well as what you sh...

I tend not to get answers to these types of things, :lol: , but what the heck might as well try anyway. Does anyone know if the numbers for the color bias controls (1 to 20 I think, to two decimals) mean anything? For example I did a bicolor the other night and I think I reduced OIII at a setting of...

Nice images. And yeah this does sound sort of familiar to a prior conversation around here? I believe I know what you are talking about. Sometimes images are posted that have significantly strong OIII, as if they were deep and almost unbelievably smooth pools of blue. And of course the separation yo...

There is an interesting post (in an interesting thread) here: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/749610-nothing-to-do-want-to-practice-processing/page-16#entry10849588 , where Ivo got into the weeds a little bit on explaining how you can weight a Synth L when it has contributions from both L and the...

Well done both of you! :thumbsup: Even after more than a year at the AP thing, I have yet to train my sights on the Rosette. I'll have to see how much of it might fit in the 610mm of the Newt. And as long as there was no egregious straying from Ivo's best practices, and avoiding the, um, frowned-upo...