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Thanks mate.

Thanks Wayne! I’m glad I could help.

Thanks mate. That’s awesome to hear. Clear skies.

Thanks mate. Glad you like the content.

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.

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

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.

Thanks mate.

Thanks mate.

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.

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.

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.

Thanks Thomas.

I’m glad I could help. I love the Dragons, they are so photogenic.

Glad I could help Patti. Clear skies.

Thanks for the feedback. It is always a fine line between talking too slow and talking too fast.

Unfortunately the PixInsight update process can be a massive pain. I flush the cache on my web server each day to try and ensure any updates are served out but otherwise it is just a case of waiting and hoping PixInsight notices there is an update.

@@PaulymanAstro ohh.. tried reloading all the scripts, even reset the updates but nothing happened... I dont see a folder of orton glow in the Pixinsight script folder..

Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks. I’m glad it helped. Clear skies.

Honestly I think it won’t start to truly shine until I can work in some masking. The Orton Effect as it stands will apply equally to the darker regions and the lighter regions. So if you have any nice dark nebulosity in the image it can brighten that as well. That’s not to say you can’t create your own mask now and apply it to your image before applying the script. The music is a piece of stock music from Envato Elements.

Thanks mate. Hope you like the script. It wouldn’t exist without your inspiration. It isn’t on par with PS at this point, but I have just learned how to apply masks within scripts so I’m hoping that’s where the more subtle magic can start happening.

@@PaulymanAstro I'm actually have a bit of trouble installing it. The link is cut off in the description, I'm sure there's a work around but i haven't figured it out yet.

@enteringintospace4685 I’ve just updated the description with a shortened bitly link. I hadn’t realised but apparently if your links are too long TH-cam shortens them for you and that can get mucked up if you ever edit the description in the future. The bitly link will hopefully work. Don’t panic if you get a 403 error when you get to the page, just copy the web address from the address bar and add it to the repositories list in Pix.

@@PaulymanAstro dont panic on a 403 error...check! Thanks for making the adjustment!

The 403 message occurs when you try to directly access the page using a browser as there isn’t actually a webpage to visit. However copying the address into the list of repositories in PixInsight will allow PixInsight to access the appropriate files it needs to download. But I am in the process of adding an extra section to my website where you can directly download the scripts.

Foraxx Palette Utility greatly simplifies the process it does all the heavy lifting in the middle section of the video. It creates the synthetic green, does Foraxx and adjusts the hue and saturation for you automatically. Basically everything from 29:53 to 39:35 is done with my script now. If you also switch out GHS for the SetiAstro Statistical Stretch script it is even easier still.

Perfect - that’s what I hoped you would say! As a ‘L’ plate operator, it is always awkward fining slightly older videos and working out what has changed. New scripts seem to be coming on thick and fast these days, but without the older building blocks, it can be a bit confusing, especially with the 2 x dual band filters on an OSC rig. I have Frank’s scripts (his videos led me to you), so will experiment with that workflow. Thanks again.

Thanks. Love my coffee.

I managed to reproduce the error. It occurs when either you don’t press the “Create Duplicate for Glow” button or you do press it but you press it too soon after choosing your image from the drop down. The script does some quick processing for the preview when you select an image from the drop down and I have found if that doesn’t finish (you can see it happening in the process console) then even though you press the create glow button the glow image isn’t created. Once the preview has updated pressing the create glow button again should work. I will have to do some debugging of the script for the next update and will likely set it up like Foraxx Palette so that you can only proceed once previous steps are complete and the script will only finalise if all conditions are met.