You do a good job with your tutorials. 4 years have passed and PixInsight has improved a LOT! Starnet added. WBPP 2.1. And other new scripts. It would be nice to see how you have updated your workflow. I wouldn't worry that so many others are now doing PI tutorials because your method is easy to follow with a very pleasant tone of voice.
@designbydave3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much John. Unfortunately I've fallen away from astrophotography and haven't kept up with the changes to PixInsight. I'm sure it keeps getting better and better.
@danielbeetsma61187 жыл бұрын
"I try to drink two or three beers for every process" ;-) Nice hehe. Ain't we got one of the best hobby's? ;-) Thanks for this tutorial!
@patrickstevenson83053 жыл бұрын
This tutorial has succeeded in pulling my further from CC2021 toward strictly Pix. Nice work flow, I like it.
@dilipsharan86997 жыл бұрын
One of the best PixInsight tutorials I have come across. Also good to have one focusing on DSLR
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful.
@paulbarrett4237 жыл бұрын
Learnt a lot of new stuff tonight through this, biggest one was noise reduction before stretching the image, made sense soon as you said it thanks very much
@goranthoren55226 жыл бұрын
Without your excellent tutorials I had never been able to understand this software, thank's!
@jeffreys.85576 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for this excellent tutorial David. This has become the foundation of my processing workflow in PI. Thank you!!
@thewarhenk7 жыл бұрын
Nice David. Decon should be used when linear, when star PSFs maintain their original values. While we're instructed to use the DynamicPSF process to generate the synth PSF image, using the Parametric tab as you have can bring a good result too. But again, decon isn't an edge sharpener, but rather a restorative algorithm, designed to be used in the linear space.
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. I'll play around some more with this!
@thewarhenk7 жыл бұрын
Most welcome David. Great DSLR images! Glad I could help. Feel free to share my documentation of PI with your viewers and Yahoo groups. Tutorials are at www.ip4ap.com, with free primers on my KZbin channel. Book is here springer.com/us/book/9783319256801. Happy holidays!
@jeromeyesavage96286 жыл бұрын
I agree. The technique used in the tutorial seems to be directed at the object rather that cleaning up stars. that is an original application. I think you could add in the deconvolution while linear for the stars and repeat later for the object. You would get the PSFs.
@GaryP7477 жыл бұрын
Great job Dave and thanks a million for sharing your processing methodology. It is invaluable for those of us just starting with Pix. Greatly appreciated! :-)
@user-nz2vu5dc3d7 жыл бұрын
Well done that helps me in a nice presentation and voice.. waiting for next tutorials thanks
@cl5150GL6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this great tutorial. This is the best tutorial I found for PixInsight until now! Well done.
@springy1204535 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial, bookmarked and subscribed. I understand MLT a lot better now. One question, when doing Chrominance, why go to 7 layers when you are still only using the first 3/4?
@angryBOT6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for that awesome tutorial. Helped a lot to get a overview and understand the basic workflow of PixInsight and start editing my astro-images on my own. I am now able to preprocess, edit and finalize my images fully in PixInsight and get way better results than before. It just took me 2 days of reading and watching! Easy with the help of guys like you ;). Clear skies and keep it up!
@georgehatfield94737 жыл бұрын
Well done! You might want to try a masked stretch as your initial stretch.
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
Hmm, I'll have to experiment with that thanks!
@chuknorth7 жыл бұрын
More excellence, thanks again. I do appreciate how you estimate time span w/beer. Helpful.
@aerofart7 жыл бұрын
I drank three beers just watching this video :-). LIKED and SUBSCRIBED!
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
Cheers! I hope to get more tutorials up soon!
@FabrizioSellone7 жыл бұрын
Great instructive tutorial! Thanks for sharing!! Two questions : 1. Is your 7d modified with the ir filter removed? 2. Which scope did you use, or better, what is your setup? Thanks!
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
1. Nope, all stock. I wish I had a modded camera but I use this camera for other photography as well. 2. My gear: - Canon 7D Mark II- Orion 8" f/3.9 Astrograph- Baader MPCC Mark III Coma Corrector- Orion Atlas Pro Mount- ZWO ASI 120MC-s guide camera w/ 60mm guide scope
@alessandrogaldiero77962 жыл бұрын
Hello Dave se fai ancora foto con la reflex perché non crei un tutorial più aggiornato?
@designbydave2 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately I've been out of the astrophotography game for a while now
@Orionshield19487 жыл бұрын
Well produced! Thanks for the effort to present.
@spudwebster10 ай бұрын
Most tutorials start with the images already stacked. Would like to know how one gets that far. Many problems occur during stacking. Would be nice to see the step by step. For example, I used a color DSLR, but my darks and flats are grayscale. How do I see the color?
@designbydave10 ай бұрын
Sorry, I've been out of the astrophotography game for a while now so I'm not very "current" with this stuff. I explained right off the bat in this video that I used Deep Sky Stacker to stack this image. I have another video tutorial on that.
@spudwebster10 ай бұрын
@@designbydave Thanks. I am just getting grumpy because everyone starts with Masters from DSS or another program. LOL! Trying to do it all in PI.
@designbydave10 ай бұрын
@@spudwebster Guess what, I have a tutorial for that as well! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKG3nXaghJighNEsi=KBy01Ian2sZtde5r
@spudwebster10 ай бұрын
@@designbydave Thanks! What would really help me how your integrated files are in color. I normally do mono, but started using a DSLR for quick fun. When I look at a sub, its grayscale and when I stack my darks for example, they are grayscale. How are you guys seeing color? I used a moded Canon T3i and shot in FITs instead of CR2 using SGP. Any help would be appreciated and you'd be my hero!
@designbydave10 ай бұрын
Hmm, I always shot directly on the camera. I don't know what SGP is. Assuming that is a 3rd party application running on a computer, I'd guess there is a mono/color configuration in there. @@spudwebster
@temp6808 жыл бұрын
This is really helpful, thank you for this video, I appreciate it!
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome. Glad I could be of help. Let me know if there is anything you'd like to see in more detail. I'm planning a series of tutorials.
@temp6807 жыл бұрын
A narrowband tutorial would be really helpful for me.
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
You and me both! Combining and mixing the color channels seems to be an art all to itself! I've played around a bit but haven't been able to get anything I like.
@temp6807 жыл бұрын
David Aldrich Im trying to get the hubble kind of colors with the gold and cyan kind of stuff
@gaiors7 жыл бұрын
Thats a huge contribution! thanks for sharing!
@MexximusUK4 жыл бұрын
Thanks again for posting. This has become the basis of my workflow with great results. One question is... As the image is already permanently stretched I believe I don't have to stretch when saving (although I have tried this as well) ? When saving from XISF to JPEG, TIFF etc. I have a noticeable loss in visual quality no matter what size file or settings I try. I never had this problem when saving from FIT but recent changes in Pixinsight have forced me to update from an earlier version and save as XISF. Many Thanks to anyone that could provide a solution!
@LeifSobremonte3 жыл бұрын
this is a long shot - but would you by any chance have the integration details for the stacked fts used in the tutorial? i'm using an unmodded 7dmkii + cls filter but my integrations look waaaay noisier than yours. maybe i'm using the wrong iso (1600) or exposures (usually 60secs).. or i guess i just need more frames. yes i'm also using flats+darks. great tutorial, thanks for sharing!
@designbydave3 жыл бұрын
Oh sorry man, its been a while and I've importunately been out of the asrto game. I think these were 5 minute exposures at iso 1600, usually around 2 - 3 hours total integration time.
@LeifSobremonte3 жыл бұрын
@@designbydave ah no worries. in the beginning of the vid you did say it was about 1.5 hrs integration. but wow. 5 minute subs. you must have nice dark skies! unfortunately i live under bortle 9 so that's that i guess. thanks again!
@gabrielperez25687 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial! cleared a lot of things for me. Thanks for posting.
@chrishill49036 жыл бұрын
Working through Warren Keller's book as well as other online tutorials. I noticed that you got around using background modelization by using Background Neutralization. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach? BTW. Very impressed with your knowledge of PI clearly you have spent inordinate hours of practice. Thanks again for putting this tutorial together.
@JaySott6 жыл бұрын
Dave, Thank you for the incredibly detailed process. Certainly a huge amount to learn in PixInsight. I am running into a problem with the saturation phase and wanted to run it by you if I could? I have a shot of M43 with Running Man and nebulosity across the region. I'm very advanced in Lightroom, and while I cannot achieve some of the internal structural work available in PixInsight, I can most definitely pull out the blues and reds, and even that hint of green. When working through your process, I get the blues around the top (Running Man) and bottom nebula, but it's pretty devoid of any of the reds very much a part of the central area. Any thoughts as to how to bring those out? I'd be more than glad to share the original RAW file with you. I also understand (I think) that I'm supposed to be converting the RAW file to FITS? (which I haven't mastered).
@jean-marcgillard4 жыл бұрын
Hi David, thanks a lot for this tuto (and others too) I've learn a lot about how to examinate images and fix problems. And fyi beer is my job...so thanks for drinking some too ;o)
@BrokenPik7 жыл бұрын
man i so needed this tut, i was about to sell everything..... 350$ for Pix,,, no results.. thanks David..
@mupangamwanakatwe13002 жыл бұрын
Hi David. Please can you advise how you get those great-looking diffraction spikes on your stars? Thanks in advance. Mupanga
@designbydave2 жыл бұрын
Hi. Diffraction spikes are an optical aberration caused by the arms of the secondary mirror holder (the spider) of the dobsonian telescope I was using.
@mupangamwanakatwe13002 жыл бұрын
@@designbydave Ok thanks. So not much hope of such from my RedCat 51 😅! Have a great day Sir…
@mupangamwanakatwe13002 жыл бұрын
@@designbydave BTW, a great tutorial that de-mystified multi-exposure HRD - will be trying it out soon. Many thanks 🙏🏿!!
@designbydave2 жыл бұрын
@@mupangamwanakatwe1300 diffraction spikes are technically a flaw in the image, but yeah, they can look pretty nice. There are software tools that will generate them so you can fake it. Google around
@designbydave2 жыл бұрын
@@mupangamwanakatwe1300 Thanks and good luck
@JulioCruzcoach5 жыл бұрын
I know this is an old tutorial but.. do you use a star filter? Your stars have spikes, how? Thanks.
@hahnzey6 жыл бұрын
Excellent tutorial!
@kimkyungkoo727 жыл бұрын
Excellent tutorial ! Thak you very much. Really helpful. :)
@georgekolossoski89727 жыл бұрын
Hi, i'm very new to Pixinsight, and there are some things that i didn't understand. The first one is: There's an annotation that says the actual first step is background extraction. I watched that video, followed the steps and got a new image with background extracted and STF autostretched. Now should i use this new image to the next steps? Should i have hit Ctrl + A to autostretch, or i have to use the image without autostretch? Thank you.
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
Hi George. Yes, you'll want to use the new, background-extracted image to do the rest of your processing. It should already be autostretched but if not go ahead and do so. Remember that the autostretch is just a preview that you toggle on and off. Hope that helps.
@TheZ3roCool5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great video :) Very easy to follow.
@RegulusRemains5 жыл бұрын
This was SO helpful! Thank you!
@kevinnichts15157 жыл бұрын
Great Tutorial, thank you very much! It helped me alot!
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
Cheers. Got any of your images online?
@kevinnichts15157 жыл бұрын
This is my last image that i have taken and the first that i'm think its showable. www.astrobin.com/279460/ Do you also have a Astrobin account?
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
Keinen Nichts wow that is a great image!
@kevinnichts15157 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot David :-)
@goranthoren55226 жыл бұрын
Extremely helpful, thank's a lot!
@jamestomney4434 жыл бұрын
Thanks - very informative!
@ACEOFSPACE20005 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info great tutorial.
@glennjshuttleworth43657 жыл бұрын
Thanks, very helpful.
@designbydave7 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome. Glad I could be of help. Let me know if there is anything you'd like to see in more detail. I'm planning a series of tutorials.
@MeisterSchnitzel16 жыл бұрын
Great video, thank you very much!
@georgelabelle8820 Жыл бұрын
Slow it down. The mouse moves so fast it is difficult to follow. Thanks.
@designbydave Жыл бұрын
Ok, thank you
@ScottyBishop6 жыл бұрын
Glad I didn't buy PI because I can't get a result with it that is even close to as good as I do with Photoshop. Got 3 weeks left on the trial, not even hopeful hat I will ever get anything good with it. I followed this exactly, and still, nope.
@designbydave6 жыл бұрын
Scotty Bishop "I followed this exactly" - that's where you're not getting it. You can just copy someone else's settings and expect it to work with your images. Every setup is different and even the changes from the seeing the night you images changes how you approach processing them. Pixinsight is a big box of tools and to get good results you have to invest the time to figure out how those tools can best serve your images. So some people it may not be worth the time. For me it has been. This guide is meant only as a rough template and its what I've found works for me.
@malcolqwe25 жыл бұрын
wow..I clicked on this expecting to find out how to stack DSLR images...
@adventureswithfrodo27213 жыл бұрын
You do something at the very start where it totally changes the image so unfortunately it makes the crap tutorial.
@designbydave3 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure where you are referring too, but if you are unable to follow along, please see a beginner tutorial for Pixinsight. I did not intend for this to be an "intro to Pixinsight" tutorial as there are plenty of those out there. Instead, this was meant as the title says, a "workflow" tutorial. Not a tutorial on how to use the tools, but rather the order and reasons for that order based on the type of image I am processing. Sorry if that wasn't clear in the title or at the beginning of the video.