Recent Articles in Fundamental Workflow Examples

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In this final section we look at what happens when stars are de-emphasized. 

Work takes place to bring out the best of the detected nebulosity while minimizing other distracting artifacts.

The continued effort to create an optimal blend of starless data with the original version. 

Shown here is a technique championed by Adam Block through the years. 

PCC is used to color calibrate the image in the standard way.

Continuing from the previous section the results of the gradient equalized images are integrated and DBE is applied to the RGB image. 

In this video we look at the results of WBPP and highlight a new script called Normalize Scale Gradients which looks to be an excellent tool likened to Local Normalization. 

This is the first official workflow video to take advantage of WBPP 2.1!

We begin by looking at the data set we are going to work on (and throw out the worst frames immediately).

This page contains a link to download the NGC 300 data used in the Fundamentals Workflow examples. 

The final section of processing NGC 300 demonstrates standard noise reduction as well as a final enhancement to the image. 

This lesson shows Adam applying special color enhancements to make the HII regions stand out more (at least as much as possible). Although this is not a standard workflow section- much can be learned here in terms of typical PixInsight image processing. 

In this section of processing NGC 300, standard color adjustments are made in order to provide more visual contrast across the image.

This lesson in processing the NGC 300 data shows how to use DBE on the RGB image. 

In Part 2 of processing OSC data of NGC 300 we go through the standard steps of WBBP, StarAlignment, ImageIntegration, and Photometric Color Calibration.

Data generously provided by Grahame Kelaher is the subject of this simply-processed workflow series. 

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In this second section the data is simply averaged together and some typical enhancements are made to increase contrast and color. This is of the style perhaps of Akira and other nightscapers.

With some new toys, I have some fun putting together DSLR data to highlight the constellation of Cassiopeia. The workflow and processing is simple because there are only a handful of frames- so only basic techniques are possible.