Remote astrophotography involves several major activities that include: Planning observations Scheduling observations Downloading images Post-processing images Publishing images Post-processing activities repair, recover, and enhance your remote astrophotography to make your images pleasing to a...
PixInsight Narrowband Processing Workflow
PixInsight offers users a lot of options for processing images. With all of the available options, it can be difficult to figure out which processes to use and in which order to apply them....
Using SCNR With An Inverted Image To Reduce or Eliminate Magenta Stars In Narrowband Images
A common problem in narrowband images, especially using the SHO or Hubble Palette, is magenta-colored stars, or stars that have a magenta halo around them. This article explains how to remove the magenta colored...
Creating A Mask By Extracting The Luminance Component Of An Image
There are cases where all you have is an RGB image, and yet you need to create a mask based on the image. While you could use a RangeMask, using the actual image is...
Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction
This is Saturn and Jupiter along with its moons as they appeared December 20, 2020: Saturn is at the upper-left and Jupiter and three of its moons are at teh lower-right of the image....
Using ICCProfileTransformation To Save Color Space Information
When displaying images, the device displaying the image needs to have an understanding of the color space an image uses to correctly display it on the screen. Saving color space information with your images...
Using The DarkStructureEnhance Script To Enhance An Image
The DarkStructureEnhance script, located under Script – Utilities, is an easy to use script that can enhance your images late in the workflow. Typically, your image should be nonlinear and this script is usually...
Using The AutoColor Script To Color Calibrate Images
The AutoColor script combines BackgroundNeutralization and ColorCalibration in one step and can often produce results that are better than using BackgroundNeutralization and ColorCalibration at their default settings. Before you use the script, you have...
Using FastRotation To Rotate An Image
FastRotation is a very easy process to use and you can use it at any point in your workflow. FastRotation offers several options for rotating your image: simply select an option and drag the...
Use EZ Star Reduction To Reduce Stars
Update October, 2023: The EZ Processing Suite is no longer available in PixInsight PixInsight includes a process called MorphologicalTransformation which can be used to reduce the presence of stars. The problem with MorphologicalTransformation is...
