Learning Pixinsight

I purchased Pixinsight back in September to learn and use fully with my astroimaging projects. Since picking this up, I have spent a fair bit of time with it and I will reluctantly state that I have learned enough to get around with it.

I spent some time with Cuiv's video on YouTube, where he teaches you everything you need to know to get started in Pixinsight, and it helped me a lot. At least it got me pointed in the right direction.

I was able with practice to get to the point where I could process the image on thie top of this blog post, SH2-136, the Ghost Nebula, taken with my Hyperstar V4, 140 x 1 minute subs. This is a decent result. I would have liked about another 100 frames to stack.

My workflow is pretty simple.....I want to keep it simple as I learn and add new pieces. Simplicity is the essence of success. I am sharing it with you so that you can help me too.

1. Weighted Batch Pre Processing (stacking)

2. Image Solver

3. Spectrophotometric Color Calibration

4. Screen Transfer Function (on)

5. Dynamic Crop

6. Spectrophotometric Flux Calibration

7. Multiscale Gradient Correction

8. Blur Xterminator

9. Noise Xterminator

10. Screen Transfer Function (off)

11. Histogram Transformation

12. SCNR

13. Curves transformation (saturation)

14. Save files....