Welcome to the third part of my new series to try and help people get off to a flying start in PixInsight! - Come process along with me during this tutorial and learn by doing.
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NEW! : Affiliate link for RC astro! - HUGE thanks to Russell Croman! :-)
If you choose to use any of these links you'll be helping me out at no additional cost to yourself!
BlurXTerminator -
https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/BlurXTerminator?refId=f712c623b0bbe906
StarXTerminator -
https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/StarXTerminator/?refId=f712c623b0bbe906
NoiseXTerminator -
https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/NoiseXTerminator/?refId=f712c623b0bbe906
You will need the following -
1: PixInsight (installed & updated)
2: EZ-Processing suite - https://darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/
3: Either Starnet2 (free)
https://www.starnetastro.com/download/
or StarXterminator (paid software)
https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/StarXTerminator/
4: The data and Toolset - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xUR0xxgDs6ce2_HXtMspai5dDXmSDs4K/view?usp=sharing
Huge thanks to my good friend Bill Blanshan for providing these great tools for us all! - find his channel here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxCDfyRToNx2s147fO2lxA
Thank you!!
AFFILIATE LINKS!!
Topaz Denoise, Gigapixel & Sharpen AI are some of my favorite software to aid in astro and terrestrial image processing! If you buy the software through this link I would receive a commission at zero extra cost to yourself!
Topaz Labs Affiliate Link! - https://topazlabs.com/ref/1133/
Amazon Affiliate Links! - Anything you buy through one of these links will give me a small commission at no extra cost to yourself!
Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3EOCgpV
Amazon US - https://amzn.to/3quGPlD
High Point Scientific Affiliate Links!
High Point Scientific Affiliate Link - https://www.highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=6336274.c7cd64
Orion Telescopes & Binoculars Affiliate links!
https://www.pjatr.com/t/R0FHSUdKTEFGSEhJRUpBTExEREw
https://www.pntrs.com/t/S0BMQ0pFQEVHR0hESUBLS0NDSw
https://www.pntrs.com/t/R0JJSEVIS0ZCR0lJSkZLQk1NRUVN
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro & Prerequisites
01:02 Tutorial Start
03:14 Cropping
04:20 Background Extraction
09:30 Linear Fitting
10:20 Linear Denoise Phase
11:20 Making Nonlinear (Stretching)
12:00 Channel Combination
12:47 Beginning the edit
18:30 A neat trick..(sacrificial clone masking)
27:47 Credits list!
28:29 End Result