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Dave Eagle’s PixInsight astrophotography image-processing guide demonstrates how to get started and offers useful workflows using various Processes and Scripts.
Description
This 133 page guide takes you through PixInsight’s processes and scripts step by step, building your confidence with the interface while showing you how to get it working effectively from the ground up.
You’ll follow real workflows for deep sky, comet, solar, lunar and planetary images, using downloadable practice files so you can follow along exactly as shown.
Written by UK astrophotographer Dave Eagle, this guide is aimed at astrophotographers moving from other software into PixInsight, or complete beginners wanting a clear route through one of the most powerful (and often intimidating) processing packages available.
This book is also available to purchase from First Light Optics.
This 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.
Additional information
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