Description
This edition of Dave Eagle’s astrophotography image processing guides demonstrates techniques and suggested workflows using some of PixInsight’s many Processes and Scripts.
Containing Dave’s usual step-by-step guides to help build familiarity with PixInsight’s graphical user interface, get it working effectively, and install some very useful extra resources.
This guides the reader through a number of workflows using the Processes and Scripts to get great results from their deep sky, comet, solar, lunar and planetary images.
To support the contents of this guide, I have included a number of useful images and files that can be downloaded from my Web page. The reader can use these to follow along with the suggested PixInsight workflows demonstrated in this guide.
This 133-page PixInsight edition covers, amongst others, the following topics:
- PixInsight’s Graphical User Interface (GUI).
- Workspaces.
- View & Process Explorer.
- Process Explorer.
- Resources, Repositories, Installing Modules and Updates.
- Let the GPU Take the strain.
- Processes & Scripts.
- Process Icons.
- Blink.
- Weighted Batch Preprocessing.
- Screen Transfer Function.
- Dynamic Crop.
- Blur Xterminator.
- Noise Xterminator.
- Deconvolution & Noise Reduction
- Separating Stars from the Background Sky.
- Gradient Correction.
- Stretching methods.
- Increasing Image Contrast.
- Increasing Image Saturation.
- Removing Green Colouration.
- Merging Starless and Star Images.
- Saving images.
- Creating LRGB Images.
- Creating Pseudo-Hubble Palette Images.
- Creating Hubble Palette Image.
- Comet Integration and Processing.
- Processing Solar, Lunar and Planet images.
- Other useful Processes and Scripts.
- Handy Hints and Tips.
