What are your must have scripts for PI? Right now I have a basic install with 3rd party scripts from SetiAstro and Cosmic Photons. What I’m I missing? If it matters, I’m a mono shooter.
Must have scripts for Pix Insite
You can try the Veralux Suite in PI. Currently only Hypermetric Stretch and Star Composer is available for PI where’s the full suite is available in Siril
Pixinsight Toolbox is a must for me. Very good scripts for HDR multiscale, continuum subtraction/addition, enhance nebula, etc. Great set of tools.
Nightphotons by Charles Hagen for continuum subtraction.
DarkStructureEnhance.
Mike Cranfield’s utilities - a must have to me: https://cosmicphotons.com/scripts/
Hi.
the most used and popular ones are for me
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SetiAstro
nightphotons
cosmicphotons
mosaic
image analysis
CS
Brian
Brian Diaz · Mar 18, 2026 at 03:13 PM
Hi.
the most used and popular ones are for me
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CS
Brian
Hi and sorry for my newbie question: What are “CS” and “Brian”?
Thank you.
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Michael · Mar 20, 2026, 01:32 PM
Brian Diaz · Mar 18, 2026 at 03:13 PM
Hi.
the most used and popular ones are for me
…
CS
Brian
Hi and sorry for my newbie question: What are “CS” and “Brian”?
Thank you.
CS stands for "Clear Skies"—it's a greeting.
Brian is my name
CS
Brian
As mentioned, Mike Cranfield scripts, definitely.
Then I’m surprised nobody mentioned RC Astro yet. Aren’t BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator the first scripts anyone should get ? https://www.rc-astro.com/
If you do OSC with dual NB filters you might want to look at DBXtract https://dbxtract.astrocitas.com/, you tell it which sensor you have and it’s gonna split the narrowband channels for you.
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SelectiveColorCorrection is good https://ideviceapps.de/selectivecolorcorrection.html
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Eric Gagne · Mar 20, 2026, 02:52 PM
As mentioned, Mike Cranfield scripts, definitely.
Then I’m surprised nobody mentioned RC Astro yet. Aren’t BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator the first scripts anyone should get ? https://www.rc-astro.com/
If you do OSC with dual NB filters you might want to look at DBXtract https://dbxtract.astrocitas.com/, you tell it which sensor you have and it’s gonna split the narrowband channels for you.
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SelectiveColorCorrection is good https://ideviceapps.de/selectivecolorcorrection.html
I did get BlurX which is really very good. I can sharpen detail a lot of ways but BlurX is the only tool I’ve used that doesn’t ruin the stars. They maintain a lovely gaussian distribution with no halos, black eyes or other problems. specially for Galaxy images when I generally do not subtract the stars, it’s priceless.
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I am not sure these are “must haves”…I suppose it depends on the type of data you have and your preferences…but third-party scripts that I find most useful are:
RC Astro’s Blur Exterminator and Noise Exterminator
CosmicPhotons ScreenStars, StarReducer, NBColourmapper, ImageBlend
Night Photon’s Continuum subraction tool
A few like StarNet2 that are now included in the PixInsight standard set of scripts
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In addition to what has been already listed here, I like the Night Photons ApplySTF script.
John
Surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet.
Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch
One Click, Real Science
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Adding "L" Data To RGB Data in Pixinsight
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