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[Tutorial] 20 processing workflows under Pixinsight (English)

Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight Processing Deep Sky How-to
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Philippe BERNHARD avatar
Philippe BERNHARD avatar
Hi folks
I have updated my website on Pixinsight processing tools.

You have fully preprocessed your stacks under Pixinsight, AstroPixel Processor, SIRIL,… and you want to use Pixinsight for processing ? theses complete methods could be able to help you in any situation (color OSC or monochrome cameras)

https://astro-photographie.fr/traitement_pixinsight.html



I don’t write tutorials with precise settings on process and scripts because it completely depends of the image quality (or subject) and I want users make effort to understand what they are doing and how works process and scripts. 




best,
philippe
Olivier Bernard avatar
Olivier Bernard avatar
Merci pour cette bible
Christopher Dietz avatar
Christopher Dietz avatar
Very nice and clear descriptions!
Andreas Zeinert avatar
Andreas Zeinert avatar
Merci beaucoup Philippe ! 👍
Michel avatar
Michel avatar
Very nice, thank you!
Ian McIntyre avatar
Ian McIntyre avatar
Well done, Philippe. So often youtube tutorials get very "deep in the weeds" without a basic framework. This is the kind of mapping in the front end that would really help with context. I look forward to trying these workflows and comparing to how I am processing now.

Your site is now bookmarked.

Merci.
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Rodolphe Goldsztejn avatar
Rodolphe Goldsztejn avatar
Super job, bravo!
CS,
Rodolphe
Dumitru Irizan avatar
Dumitru Irizan avatar
thank you  Philippe
Philippe BERNHARD avatar
Philippe BERNHARD avatar
English version updated on all slides ! (with some corrections)
Habib Sekha avatar
Habib Sekha avatar
Thank you for your efforts, Philippe. Very nicely done!
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Spacetime Pictures avatar
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The best! Thanks for sharing
Raúl Hussein avatar
Raúl Hussein avatar
Wonderful work Philippe. Even though the processes are constantly changing, it's a great guide. Thanks for using DBXtract.
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Stéphane Mee avatar
Stéphane Mee avatar
Wow Amazing thanks a lot! I will use it to see what makes sense to my in my workflows and leverage your experience. Many thanks!

Stéphane
Coriorda avatar
Coriorda avatar
How long until we can take the human element out if the Pixinsight process altogether. ? Cant we just automate the script sequence entirely
Daniel Cimbora avatar
Daniel Cimbora avatar
@Philippe BERNHARD Thank you!!!!  I’ve been looking for exactly the sort of thing for a while. There are a lot of video tutorials available but sometimes I just need a quick reminder and don’t have much interest in sitting through a 45 minute YouTube video.
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Philippe BERNHARD avatar
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Daniel Cimbora:
@Philippe BERNHARD Thank you!!!!  I’ve been looking for exactly the sort of thing for a while. There are a lot of video tutorials available but sometimes I just need a quick reminder and don’t have much interest in sitting through a 45 minute YouTube video.

Thank you !
For me too, video are always too long...
Nicolas Puig avatar
Nicolas Puig avatar
Merci pour cette belle palette de workflows !
C'est géniale d'avoir des bases visualisables pour ne pas oublier une étape ou s'égarer en chemin.

Bravo pour ce beau travail et partage.

Nicolas
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Mike Lundy avatar
Mike Lundy avatar
Awesome; thanks!
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Mar Mérida avatar
Thank you very much for these schemes of work.. They are very helpful and pleasant to look at!
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Lightbringer3 avatar
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Merci!!!
Richard Mak avatar
Richard Mak avatar
Merci!!!
Philippe BERNHARD avatar
Philippe BERNHARD avatar
Hello
Many updates on my website... 20 tutorials are now updated.
Cheers
philippe


ValeryL avatar
ValeryL avatar
Merci à toi!

Je pose mes questions en anglais pour que tout le monde en profite ;)

I have two questions :

- in general, why noiseX before StarX? Do stars really need denoise or maybe denoise does not work well on starless for some reason? What am I missing here..

- In the "Dualband OSC images from special "Extract Ha & Oiii mode", where does you find this mode? In WBPP? Is it any better than normal stacking and then manual extraction (usually I do red = Ha, and OIII= 0.5x b + 0.5 x g)?

Merci encore, incroyable travail smile
Philippe BERNHARD avatar
Philippe BERNHARD avatar
Thanks
For denoising before starX it really depends of the amount of noise.
In Chile we have images without any noise so there is no need
If you have strong noise, it can be better to reduce a little before starx or even a color calibration (assemble RGB then reduce noise a little then color calibration procedure. After StarX you can do another noise reduction.
You need sometimes to look at starx result before and after noise reduction. Result can be slightly different on the starless image. So no precise rules.

Extract Ha and OIII are feature from AstroPixel Processor and Siril. Not WBPP.

But the most powerful in OSC images is the use of DualBand eXtract script which really optimizes OIII signal.