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Using AutoIntegrate.js and Manual Processes In PixInsight To Process a Comet Image
By Erik
/ January 23, 2023
Processing an image of a comet is not a straightforward process because the comet moves during your observation session. If...
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Telescope Live Adds Amazing CMOS Camera – Compare the Before and After Images
By Erik
/ January 20, 2023
Telescope Live is in the process of switching over to CMOS cameras for all of their telescopes. Today, they released...
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AutoIntegrate.js Updated with BlurXTerminator, SPCC
By Erik
/ January 20, 2023
The popular AutoIntegrate.js script by Jarmo Ruuth has been updated to include both BlurXTerminator and the new Spectrophotometric Color Calibration...
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Effective Method To Reduce Stars In PixInsight
By Erik
/ January 19, 2023
Star reduction in astrophotography is a technique used to reduce the appearance of stars in an image. This technique is...
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Foraxx Palette Script: Dynamic Narrowband Combinations
By Erik
/ January 18, 2023
In June 2020, a blogger named The Coldest Nights published a post about combining narrowband images using dynamic PixelMath expressions...
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Online Narrowband RGB Combination Preview Tool
By Erik
/ January 17, 2023
I found an online tool that allows you to explore various color combinations for narrowband data. The tool combines Ha,...
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Exploring a Random Place taken by the JWST
By Erik
/ January 12, 2023
I have written before about downloading and processing images from the James Webb Space Telescope; I even wrote an article...
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Creating an RGB Image Using JWST Data and Free Tools
By Erik
/ January 9, 2023
In another article, I explained how you could download and process a JWST image using PixInsight; however, not everyone owns...
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NGC 1365 From the JWST
By Erik
/ January 3, 2023
This is the core of NGC 1365, a double-barred galaxy in the Fornax constellation. The image was captured by the...
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StarXTerminator 2.0 and AI 11 Released
By Erik
/ January 3, 2023
Russell Croman, the developer of the XTerminator line of software, has released version 2.0 of the popular and amazing StarXTerminator...
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Tarantula Nebula Taken using JWST
By Erik
/ January 3, 2023
The following image of the Tarantula Nebula, or NGC 2070, was taken using the JWST: The image is of the...
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Downloading and Processing JWST Images using PixInsight
By Erik
/ January 2, 2023
Remote astrophotography is all about using remote telescopes to acquire observations and there's current;y no more remote telescope than the...
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Using Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch to Balance the Histogram in PixInsight
By Erik
/ December 31, 2022
The Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch process and script are very powerful additions to the suite of tools offered on the PixInsight...
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Boosting Areas of Faint Signal Without a Mask Using PixInsight
By Erik
/ December 30, 2022
I have written before about how to boost areas of faint signal; however, that process is rather involved because you...
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Region around Wray 17-96
By Erik
/ December 28, 2022
This is the region around Wray 17-96, a star. The nebulosity makes this a very nice image. This was taken...
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Easy and Effective Noise Reduction using NoiseXTerminator
By Erik
/ December 19, 2022
PixInsight is powerful post-processing software that makes it possible for you to apply advanced image processing techniques to your images...
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GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch Process – Introduction
By Erik
/ December 17, 2022
The Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch script has been a fantastic addition to my processing workflow in PixInsight. The script's author has...
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Using BlurXTerminator for Deconvolution
By Erik
/ December 16, 2022
Russel Croman of RC Astro has introduced BlurXTerminator, a new, AI-powered tool for PixInsight designed for image deconvolution. This paid...
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C/2017 K2 with M10
By Erik
/ July 15, 2022
This is comet C/2017 K2 passing by Messier 10: This was taken using iTelescope.net's T8 system on June 15, 2022...
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