Colouring Narrowband Channels for Creative Images

Do you sometimes feel constrained by combining narrowband images in the same combinations? I have and so when the Narrowband Colour Mapping Script and Image Blend were released in Pixinsight last year a fairly simple method for colouring Narrowband Channels became available. This added the power of Photoshop Layers and Blending styles to Pixinsight. The way these tools are used depends on the relative signal strengths of each channel in a DSO. Experimentation is great fun away from the constraints of the usual HSO, HSO. HOO blending palettes.

Here is an example that i think show the power of this scripts/processes to display Deep Sky Objects in a different way.

I collected 18 hours of integration time on the Cone and Christmas Tree Cluster. Six hours each of Ha; OIII and SII. Having process the image in the Hubble Palette, i felt there must be a more dramatic way of  showing the dramatic gas clouds surrounding Nebula. This is the result having spent a few hours trying different colours and blends of the channels. 

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Paul Howat