Get Started with PixInsight: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

[@dadwhitsett]

A few comments if that is OK. First, great final image. Second, I appreciate your steps in PI processing. Fascinating to see how there are so many different approaches to getting to that final image. I will be implementing a few of these that I was previously unaware of. Thank you. Your vid is L-Extremely [ouch, pun] helpful and I am not sure where/ how you learned this wonderful program called PI but most excellent! Third, I hope you don't mind that I have placed markers for people. 1. 2:58 STF 2. 3:28 Image Flip [optional] 3. 3:49 Three steps: 4:20 Background Neutralization; 5:05 Color Calibration; 5:52 SCNR 4. 6:44 Histo. Transformation 5. 8:01 DBE 6. 11:26 Star Removal 7. 12:50 Nebula Stretch with Curve Trans [no stars]; 15:32 Red Channel Enhancement; 16:40 Saturation Stretch 8. 17:42 Denoise 9. 20:24 Star Return with Pixel Math 10. 21:45 Morph. Trans. to increase/ decrease stars 11. 23:14 Sharpen with Unsharp Mask

[@luckynumbersevuuun]

you have clear and concise demonstration, thank you. thanks for sharing your insights and process.

[@jmb8473]

Well done. Very helpful. Thanks

[@johnhorner769]

Thanks Nick for putting this together and making your data available for us to practice with. I'm only at the very early stages of this hobby and have been experiencing what could be termed as astro editing blindness. I've sat down with your video, laptop and pen and paper on a miserable autumn weekend, I now feel that I can at least grasp the basics when I begin to collect some worthwhile data of my own. I'm determined to improve in this hobby as it would be easy to not see results and give up. Once again thanks for the lessons 👍 Cheers John

[@SAKinDXB]

a nice tutorial for beginners, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Please can you also share that how to stack the images.

[@pugsicle-robloxmore6646]

seen lots of videos whilst im using my pixinsight trial but this was by far the best and easiest to understand ..thankyou

[@alex_g77]

Thank you for this video, you are a good teacher. I will definitely be watching this video many times

[@Kay_jay_999]

Thank you so much! ... just got a trial version of pixinsight & this step by step was very helpful!!! Subscribed!

[@ninjageezer6802]

Brilliant Nick one of the best videos on pixinsight for beginners out there well done ......can you please do one for your galaxy workflow as well...

[@AstroExploring]

Thanks so much! Yes I will certainly do that in the future, as soon as I actually image a galaxy again…it’s been a while 🤣

[@robertbuckell8341]

I'm a tad confused. You appear to have started with an image file .TIFF already created in PI. This tutorial says it is for beginners but how did you create that .TIFF file?

[@CurtisAstro]

Right! This isn't a beginner video, if you don't show how to stack

[@SteveZodiac777]

Thanks Nick - very useful.

[@markwright748]

Great video Nick and good to have data that a beginner can work with. I have the same question as a few others regarding stacking

[@craiglowery4427]

Wow. Great video. I bought PI and trying to learn

[@uktrismus]

Brilliant Tutorial. this will get me going in PI, nice and easy to follow. Thankyou for your time.😁

[@astrodad-simonb277]

Excellent Nick! Just in time for me as downloaded PI today - trying to compare with PS 🙂

[@astro-fiasco1246]

Thank you Nick. Very informative and appreciate the data.

[@AstroExploring]

Thanks Martin!

[@richardaccomando7187]

If you use a dual band filter like the L-eNhance can you tell me how this will change the workflow??? Good video. Second question. Why didn't you use Morp trf on the "stars only" image. Thank you for the data and this video.

[@stillontheedge]

Nice tutorial , thank you. I have the same camera as you. I'm interested in learning the settings used. I'm still at the try it and what happens stage.

[@mokshchouhan7934]

I bought the Fruity Edition and tNice tutorials tutorial helped out a lot!

[@bored9260]

Looks amazing

[@GeorgeSmith-oo4vn]

Hi I'm using the 45 day trial but don't have starnet, is it an addon? or not available with the trial?

[@Astro_Shed]

Great video, it’s good to have a video from a complete Pixinsight beginner for Pixinsight beginners, very well presented and explained without going to deep into the different settings, yet still producing a good well processed image….👍🏻 Stewart

[@AstroExploring]

Thanks so much Stewart! That is exactly the vibe I was going for 🙂

[@Astro_Shed]

@@AstroExploring well you nailed it, I have thought about doing a video for complete beginners, from a complete beginner as I started using only a few weeks ago too, but no need now..👍🏻

[@AstroExploring]

@@Astro_Shed you can definitely still make your own 😃

[@egavasnai]

Thank you for the tutorial, very useful, just need to shoot some image data of my own to work on.

[@AstroExploring]

Thanks Ian. Clear skies to you!

[@kareemkaaba1729]

Hi Nick, did you stack your raw data in pixlnsight or use DSS? Could you do a short video on stacking in pixlnsight? thanks Kareem

[@SteveDPIves]

I have the same question. I though PixInsight did all the stacking after you had (somehow) loaded your flats, darks, lights etc. None of the tutorials I have found show you how to do this and always seem to start with the data already loaded.

[@woldsweather]

EZ Processing Suite isn't available anymore - any chance of a beginners tutorial showing another way?

[@ninjageezer6802]

can i ask Nick do you stack in deep sky stacker ?

[@BlackravenarmouryUk]

Question .. why would background neutralisation remove pretty much every detail in the photo apart from a few stars ?..

[@ninjageezer6802]

nick are you using 2 inch filters ??

[@BlackravenarmouryUk]

Hellllooooooo so during De Noise, you didn’t mention what to do with the mask files it creates ???

[@arlinhall9656]

Can I send you a pic for your opinion on what to do with it?

[@jonathanpearceff]

I am following your instructions using an image of NGC7000 taken 3 days ago......but I can't run EZDenoise. It says it only runs on a linear image. How did you get yours to run as you stretched it earlier?

[@uktrismus]

i had same problem, if you go into the TGV settings and turn on tgv denoise it may help you

[@ninjageezer6802]

Nick i see no star Halo in this data you kindly shared,did you use your L extreme filter with this ?

[@AstroExploring]

Yeah it was the L-eXtreme

[@ninjageezer6802]

@@AstroExploringGreat stuff nick i've just ordered the same camera and the filter...keep up the fantastic channel..

[@MarvelousLXVII]

You make great videos. You almost make it look too E Zed.

[@frankapap913]

can't find data???

[@travlon5101]

Very well done !! Hilarious, it's now 2025 .... ha. Yea PI needs a good CPU and lots of RAM. It's a complex program, but as you showed, you can make a decent image just using the basics and default settings. Thanks for your help.

[@AstroExploring]

Very complex! I still feel like I know about 1% of it but it’s enough to produce great images that are better than what I can do in Photoshop, and it’s much less effort too!

[@GeorgeSmith-oo4vn]

seems starnet is no longer avilable

[@DrNat1]

Kinda clashes with Luke’s latest series, I take it your not friends 😂 pixinsight shoot out to see who’s tutorial is best?? Only one way to find out….FIGHT!! (Old harry hill) 😄

[@AstroExploring]

If I’m involved in a PixInsight shootout I am definitely losing 😂

[@juana1483]

I'm Soooo confused 😨☹

[@SteveDPIves]

But how do you load your lights, flats, darks etc? If this really is a complete beginner's tutorial, I don't think you should start with all the data already loaded.

[@woldsweather]

I thought you'd be showing how to stack??

[@WayneLittle-qz3fm]

I believe EZ stands for Easy, so pronouncing it E Zed just sounds weird. I understand you pronounce Z as Zed.