PixInsight stacking. WBPP 2.5 (Weighted Batch PreProcessing Script)

In this video I take a look at the latest WBPP script 2.5 (weighted batch preprocessing) and demonstrate how to use it and highlight some of the features. WBPP takes all of your data and calibrates, aligns and stacks it for you - all on auto pilot!
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Thanks for watching! Clear skies!

[@matthewfletcher]

lovely run through everything, great for a super newbie like this guy. Thanks!!

[@briankotak403]

Great, understandable video Shawn. I just started learning PixInsight today (using your 3 hours video tutorial). Got to the WBPP section and hopped onto this video. Awesome. Can hardly wait to continue on my new journey. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Dr. B from Manitoba, Canada

[@richardsauerbrun2412]

Excellent as always, Shawn. I enjoy the very thorough walkthrough.

[@rickbria8420]

I’m so glad that drizzle is now integrated into WBPP. I’ve been waiting for that to occur. thanks for the video

[@Dennis-tf2cs]

Thanks Shawn. I like the drizzle addition to WBPP. Nice overview and I always learn something when I watch your videos 👍

[@AstroCrescentDIY]

Thanks a lot for this tutorial. I never used WBPP thinking that it is too complex. I’ll try it now that you have made it simple. CS!

[@guiemlarch]

Wow thanks! I used to stack with DSS. I tried WBPP thanks to this video and the difference in the resulting image is bigger than I thought. Very helpful. Keep going with this great channel!

[@ediahmadfauziserbhaneka9946]

Dude, this is the only video that works. Thanks for posting!

[@bobmimiaga]

Shawn, very well-done video. I've been using WBPP for over a year but with its recent 2.5 release and your video, I learned a lot about the new additions. Thanks for your support to the Astro community!

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Thanks!

[@user-jq5ee8tr9x]

Thank you saved me a lot of time trying to browse videos for an actual working one

[@charliewatts6895]

Excellent video. I used to do all this manually, but tried WPBB for the first time. Your video really helped sort out the process.

[@gomanastro]

thanks shawn!...agree with others, and looking forward to part 2, combining frames from different days, and different locations that need different associated flat frames.

[@josephhoener5764]

You're my go-to PI tutor, Sean! Thanks for your work!

[@paulwhitton957]

Thank you Shawn - I did have a few questions about the latest WBPP but watching this video has answered them all. You are so talented and helpful with your tutorials. You make life easy. Cheers

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Glad it was helpful!

[@soilwork113]

Thank you for the video, been awhile since I used it so this was a great refresher.

[@alifkurniawan6498]

this program works great! exactly as I wanted

[@astrodrome2616]

Thank you to take time to share all these informations . I follow you from France with great pleasure .

[@kurtbauch5491]

Okay, Shawn, you are now my goto guy for any updates in PI! This is an excellent video and a good review too. I kept coming up with questions and then you would answer it during your video. Looking forward to your Keyword video. I’m doing multiple nights now (OSC), but need to learn about aligning my Flats/Dark Flats and Darks. I definitely had forgotten some of the background of WBPP and this has helped refresh my partially fossilized brain. Also, it looks like I should be putting my Dark Flats under the Dark tab (I was putting them under the Bias tab. Again, great video! Thanks!!

[@briansnell9179]

As ever a good tutorial, and a good explaination of the new changes in WBPP.

[@thatoneirishdancer]

Thank you so much!!! It did work and took less than 5 minutes!

[@olly7248]

Thanks for doing this Shawn… great tutorial, as always 👍🏻

[@timmoody7600]

Another great video. Looking forward to part II

[@Lasserubinskov]

Thank you Shawn! Loved it.

[@betafoofoo270]

Can't thank you enough for taking the time and effort to share your knowledge. Excellent video, very professionally presented, this means I am actually starting to understand some of the functions on WBPP rather than just blindly setting up with defaults. Thanks again.

[@wysicon]

Excellent and thorough video, thanks Shawn.

[@umbreon6656]

Thank you so much Sensei! You are a blessing!

[@cccard2491]

Outstanding!

[@AhmedAbdullah-rk7kt]

thank you straight to the point

[@patchyadventures]

Great overview Shawn. Thanks for making the video!

[@jellevandijk8630]

Thank you very much, your clear and relaxed way of informing is really helpful. Kind regards Jelle (from Luxembourg, Europe)

[@bobbeanbags]

This was excellent !

[@r.g.wilson4567]

Thanks for the update on WPBB. Looking forward to the next part.

[@josenicolasyagues5699]

BROTHER, YOU ARE THE BEST!!! You oooh really helped me!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

[@AstroCloudGenerator]

Thanks, great video. Perfect pace and depth. I'm new to PI and can't wait to check out your other videos.

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Awesome, thank you!

[@asimbakri754]

Great video as usual , thank you very much

[@stephen.and.the.huskies3741]

Thanks for this great tutorial, Shawn! WBPP is key for processing and I like the new drizzle function. CS, Stephen

[@mschmalenbach]

Thanks Shawn - you've been incredibly helpful. Clear skies!!! "Harry"

[@craigskinner8489]

ThNks Shawn, great video

[@christophebrun-franc984]

Thanks Shawn. Great tutorial very easy to understand ! I was not using drizzle but I may give a try now.

[@anata5127]

This is very useful. Well done young man!

[@pablovallejos8346]

Thanks! Awesome tutorial Shawn. 🙂

[@conradsanders8475]

Great tutorial Shawn !

[@N4GW]

Great video. I tried it and it worked great. The drizzle hint worked wonders. I use a REDCAT with an IMX571 so my images are under-sampled but I like the wide field view. The drizzle filled it in for me

[@davidjennings2733]

Hey Shawn, Great stuff and thank you for taking the time to put this together. I learned a lot on this and may have to revisit it again and again until I have done it several times, age does that to us. haha.. Thanks again and clear skies.

[@dadwhitsett]

Wow. Really helpful. Thank you!

[@astrobri]

Great Info, Thank you Shawn 👍

[@s.d.holland4966]

Thanks for posting this -

[@SkyShedPODTeam]

Thanks Shawn! Great as always! CS!

[@rodbell4222]

Hi Shawn, good tip on the Flat issue and dust bunnies, in the Output Pedestal window...I just started using dark flats with my ASI294MC Pro...No more bias, been doing it wrong for three years now, jeez!! Great video, thanks

[@ediahmadfauziserbhaneka9946]

It worked. Thanks a lot

[@TheRuminator]

very useful, thank you Shawn. much appreciated

[@blanejnasveschuk6351]

Shawn, very nice illustration of the WBPP process. TY

[@miguelriverocolado5202]

Great Video, you have a very nice cadence in the topic. I'm in a second lenguage and I was able to follow you very easy. Great and easy tool from PI: Looking forward to see many more of your videos.Tanks.

[@stuparker776]

Thanks Shawn this was super useful.Looking forward to trying it out

[@TareqAstroPhoton]

Excellent Shawn, thank you very much

[@VisibledarkAstro]

My pleasure!

[@ramiali8034]

Thank you very much for your key......1000% work :)

[@NaudimilsonRicarte]

Omg thanks very much ! ✨

[@timparkinson7675]

Thanks so much for this really very very helpful.

[@ChristianProulx]

Merci Shawn, nice wrap up of the UI.

[@steveby14]

Great videos thank you 👏👏

[@mr.d.8121]

Excellent, as normal. The drizzle 'enable' is very interesting....👍👍👏👏

[@ToddBossaller]

Great video, Shawn. When running WBPP with 'astrometric solution' and later processing using the CometAlignment module I had issues when trying to select my last comet image. This was repeatable on both my Mac and Windows. If you do run in to an issue, just run WBPP without the astrometric solution, at least this solved the issue for me.

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Thanks for the tip!

[@screwyouyoutube5493]

Great Video Shawn, wish you were still doing more...Happy 2024 bud 😀

[@Erniej270]

Thanks! Very useful!

[@jeffreyrogers8691]

very very gooood, thaaankss maan✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

[@alexandreastronomy8022]

Thanks Shawn!

[@wingshum7551]

Look forward for part2

[@FF43434]

Best of the best

[@qguitar1]

Super helpful Ty

[@monteroder2708]

Good stuff. thanks

[@vmikaelson5514]

Worked, thx

[@helenesolliknudsen3407]

thanks so much man

[@elmehdigoual6954]

Thanks so much

[@stephengrundy6248]

Thanks Shawn. I hadn't realised you can use master darks with WBPP before seeing this. Adding Drizzle is a useful feature too.

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Wbpp creating the drizzle masters is super!

[@johnjosephcostiniano9035]

U BEST!!!

[@BraulioGuerraU]

THANX! it was very helfull

[@funspag468]

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

[@kevholla7408]

Thanks

[@safinsd6612]

Very helpful, looking for part 2.

[@VisibledarkAstro]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ashtonecasuga2076]

thank you so much. tNice tutorials helped a lot

[@danjensen9425]

I had a very frustrating time with some Telescope live data in that it had 1.20" 300" and 600" frames that came calibrated. the stack had really bad stars that were red or green huge squares. I finally used drizzle at #2 and it fixed the problem. It was the M51 data bundle. I haven't seen a video on how to process Telescope data yet. It's different in that you get calibrated frames. Telescope Live has a free trail too. They have tutorials but use both photoshop and pixinsight . Pixinsight is difficult enough to learn no need the stress of photoshop. Anyway, nice video.

[@theinheritedsoul5018]

Thank you bro I am vary happy again. I am very v

[@hilariobara]

works gj

[@secretstill]

HI Shawn, great video. Thanks. Is there a way to use calibration exposure tolerance if you have data containing, say, three different exposure lengths? I can see how it is possible with two but not three.

[@jedidiahwest4619]

I just updated and call me simple but my favorite part is the new status window😆

[@asyhalnazil7174]

complete. So I put a few videos up to show what i've got so far, and i'm hoping that soone will take the ti to watch them, let

[@Microtonal_Cats]

Good tut. If using a Zwo OSC camera, do we need to remember to check CFA, or will it know? I figure if you're using the most common astro cams, PixInsight would know and adjust accordingly.

[@JoseLausuch]

Excellent video Shawn! I have a question, in 8:52 why your flats for the same filter have different exposure times?

[@samchasingstarlight]

Great overview. I just tried WBPP 2.5.1 now. Question: so with drizzle integration now in WBPP the output master has both a drizzle1x file and a non-drizzled master light. The drizzle1x master light I'm assuming is already drizzed and no other work has to be done with regard to drizzling?

[@dmintz88]

Hey Shawn, great video! What if I'm stacking just Ha or Oiii in WBPP, in the Post-Calibration tab, under Channels Configuration: Would I leave it with the default Combined RGB for Debayer with R,G,B active?

[@andreguttesen8982]

Hi, for a newbie really well described without being overwhelming. Ran WBPP the other day, when it then created 2 folders - calibrated, debayered - they have files of a good 25 GB in total.. right now I don't know the point of having them, and can you delete them afterwards.? do they have a function afterwards, other than they master.? otherwise you quickly run out of space.

[@alessandrogaldiero7796]

I stumbled across your channel by chance while trying to figure out how to process the comet... I will definitely use your method. I wanted to ask you did or do you plan to update your tutorial with the latest wbpp updates with the latest functions (November-December update if I'm not mistaken) those that include spcc in processing. Thank you

[@GenCodeFPV]

2.6.2 will plate solve now too, which is nice to get out of the way.

[@aluginbill6182]

Isn’t there a setting under image integration that you can set to check for bad subs? Like minimum weighting? Or how do you check your subs before running it? Do you just add them all? Like in DSS where you can reject say the bottom 20% of the subs? Thanks

[@dugstruble]

I use manual registration reference image, as I manually process after calibration in WBPP when combining sets years apart. Although I see you have a newer video out on grouping. Not sure how that will work between to pixel image scales between two set-ups. If I can work, that will be the real game changer for me.

[@olly7248]

I ran the new script on 36 Ha frames taken on my EDGE HD 8” and got a whole bunch of wide vertical white stripes down the centre of the image, when I deselected all the ‘goodies’ and took it back to a simpler stack routine it created a normal Master Stack. Any idea what might have caused that❓

[@sreeshab4093]

Excellent video Shawn, this is great help for novices like me. One question - the Drizzle - is it the same that we set for the Camera settings when we do autoguiding using ZWO Asi Air? Also, say my images are already Drizzled while capturing (through ASI Air), do you still suggest I should Drizzle again through Pixinsight?

[@paulwhitton957]

Shawn I couldn’t drizzle with OSC data, the option to drizzle is greyed out when I separate R G and B channels. The drizzle files are there in the registered folder. I used the drizzle integration process and it worked. Maybe it is too complicated to be included in WBPP automatically.

[@tominoregon8222]

another excellent tutorial but I have 2.5.1 without the updated script. looking to try it with the new QHY268 data

[@jeddymo7052]

I love all your videos. Can you give me a recommendation on the specs for a new laptop? I currently only have 16 gigs of RAM and when I do multiple nights in WBPP, I seem to run out of memory when I get to generating the Lights masterfile.