PixInsight OSC Processing: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners📸

[@betafoofoo270]

Excellent tutorial, pace is just right no excessive wait time or going over material add infinitum. Well done and thanks for sharing.

[@astrojourneyuk]

Thank you. I’m glad you found it useful and hit the sweet spot.

[@hornetharry3001]

Well you have made my life easier being very new to AP im half way through this processing and already this looks miles better than other processes I have looked up on your tube. Well done. nNow England just needs to clear sky!!

[@astrojourneyuk]

Yeah, good luck with the last part about clear skies. It really is the wrong part of the world for astro. :D Glad it's helping you though with your processing. Just so much to learn in this hobby!

[@benjaminhartman6240]

Thank you for including the workflow, I find it a great help.

[@astrojourneyuk]

Glad to hear it. Good luck with your processing.

[@RaposaDoCorona]

Wow! Thanks for providing an overview of your work process. It has helped me, as someone new to processing, understand a possible order of the component tasks.

[@astrojourneyuk]

That’s great that it’s helped. Good luck with your processing.

[@kevinfillhouer5877]

Great tutorial! I was skeptical about the AI tools but wow the result is stunning and looks so effortless

[@stevenmccarron-talesfromli4831]

Brilliant tutorial!!!!! Im really looking forward to processing future targets again after so long away from it. Thankyou.

[@astrojourneyuk]

Thank you and good luck for the future!

[@travlon5101]

Well done sir... Not too fast and not complicated. I've been using PI for about 1 1/2 years now, but still picked up a few good tips from this. Thanks a lot for doing this.

[@astrojourneyuk]

Thanks for the lovely feedback. It is a challenge to squeeze everything into a video that KZbin will be happy with from a video length point. I'm super pleased that you've learnt something too even with your experience and that's why I think it's great to share different ways of working.

[@Tony-Elliott]

Nice tutorial Marc, it's always good to see how other people do thier editing

[@astrojourneyuk]

Thanks Tony. I completely agree. The more people share the better and we can all learn. Also, if something is not a good approach people can say in the comments.

[@pauldavo7287]

Excellent tutorial. One of the best. :D

[@astrojourneyuk]

Thank you so much!

[@mrbrooksmaths7002]

Thanks for this, really helped to improve my images.

[@astrojourneyuk]

That’s great to hear and glad it helped.

[@andydragonfisher6900]

Excellent tutorial - thanks so much ❤

[@astrojourneyuk]

Glad you like it!

[@JeffFishman]

Thank you - helpful!

[@beerandbrat]

thank you thank you thank you! I finally have a working image. 2 months of trying to learn this stuff.

[@astrojourneyuk]

That's fantastic, I'm really happy for you. Can I see the final image somewhere?

[@beerandbrat]

Not yet, I am 3 months in to this awesome journey of AP. I said I had a working image, not a good one! Soon I hope.@@astrojourneyuk

[@Chorge1972]

SUPERB!!! I‘m still on SIRIL, but always thinking about switching over to PI…

[@astrojourneyuk]

I’ve not yet tried SIRIL properly however, it’s definitely way better than trying someone like photoshop in my opinion because it’s still a specialist tool.

[@craiglowery4427]

Outstanding video Marc. I've played around with PI enough now to fully understand your workflow. This is now my go to PI workflow. I really appreciate your efforts. Do you have a galaxy workflow video?

[@astrojourneyuk]

I have a couple but they need updating. I’m planning on redoing it soon.

[@timburgess1528]

many thanks!

[@astrojourneyuk]

No problem. I hope it helped.

[@garrettgold]

W tutorial!!

[@craiglowery4427]

Love this video Marc. How do I keep the processing icons loaded on screen so that they are already there when I start PI each time

[@astrojourneyuk]

I always just double click the process icon file which then opens PixInsight. I have a different file for mono cameras to one shot colour cameras. There are some ways to do what you want to but I had a quick look and it’s not that straight forward which seems to be the PixInsight way for some things. 😂 I’ll keep looking.

[@bigrobmartin1998]

I get completely hung up on Range Selection/Nebula Masking. When i adjust the lower limit slider, screen in preview window goes from white to black at 0.020000 and stays black all the way up. Lost at this point.

[@virenlemmer9765]

Great video! I've been using an older version of Pixinsight for several years. I just upgraded. It sure is easier now! But, I have one problem. I can't see to locate your process icons.

[@astrojourneyuk]

The typical issue here is that the screen resolution is different. If you can’t find them they are likely on the right. Scroll over and you should find them.

[@DSOm42]

Anything like EZ Soft Stretch available now that that's gone?

[@astrojourneyuk]

It’s still there. Google it and you’ll find that someone else has taken up the project now fortunately.

[@xyzzy2005]

Thanks for the great video. I have the latest pixinsight and tried loading OneShotColourWorkflow.xpsm and it gives errors- " error parsing instance element .... unkown process: ...."

[@astrojourneyuk]

Ah, that will likely be due to you not having the Xterminetor tools. The rest of the processes should load though. 🤞

[@nikaxstrophotography]

Great video mate but you haven't linked the process icons in the description :)

[@astrojourneyuk]

Hi Nik, thank you and I'm really sorry I forgot to upload the files! The links are there now, enjoy!

[@seeingtheworld3010]

NOT for the beginer at 3:57 mins i glazed over and had to stop!

[@astrojourneyuk]

I guess there are many levels of beginner. Image capture, pre processing and post processing. To go through somethings start to finish at a beginner level could take some time. Thanks for the feedback.

[@dadwhitsett]

Background neutralization??

[@astrojourneyuk]

This is done automatically as part of photometric color calibration (PCC). It saves an additional step.

[@davehyper7835]

A bit annoying when you start watching a tutorial on Pixinsight only to find you have to go off and pay for 3rd party add-ons. Shame because the overall presentation is very good.

[@astrojourneyuk]

Sorry about that. I’ll do some in the future where it is all just PixInsight.

[@JeffFishman]

Thought the video was excellent as new Pi user. Thank You - can’t wait to add your process icons and rewatch your nebula processing. I did click on link for icons (on phone) and it seems like a text file. Do i just save as Pi’s format/file extension and Pi will know to build process icons ?? Please do more videos and additional costs always come into play. Astronomy/Astrophotography can be an expensive hobby. My wife made me; A. Check to see if insurance covers it B. Video tape all equipment C. Build Excel spreadsheet