Astronomy Python - Crab Nebula - Combine RGB channel images into One Image

 In Astronomy, Image taken by cameras would be based on specific filters(channels)-Red, Green, Blue.

Below are the the images taken across 3 channels. Red(Left), Green(Centre), Blue(Right)

Original image credit(single image which is not shown here)-

Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)

Below is result after combining above 3 channel images

Below is the python code used. Original Carb Nebula image is spitted  into 3 channels(as shown 3 gray images above)

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from PIL import Image

# Open the red, green, and blue channel images

red_channel = Image.open('E:\\astronomy_related\\rbg_one\\red.png')

green_channel=Image.open('E:\\astronomy_related\\rbg_one\\green.png')

blue_channel =Image.open('E:\\astronomy_related\\rbg_one\\blue.png')

# Create a new RGB image

result = Image.merge("RGB", (red_channel, green_channel, blue_channel))

# Save the result image

result.save('E:\\astronomy_related\\rbg_one\\rbg_crab_nebula.png')

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Credits

Code Credit-

https://chat.openai.com

Original image credit-

Credits: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-1-the-crab-nebula

save image-

https://pythonexamples.org/python-opencv-cv2-imwrite-save-image/

code to split one image to 3 channel images-

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-split-an-image-into-different-color-channels-in-opencv-python

cv2. split() is used to split  multi-channel or colored image into separate single-channel images.