PixInsight Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• When it comes to software what do you use and can you go a little bit into detail on how to use it

  PixInsight - Stacking and image processing. It's pricey but really the best processing software out there for deep sky pics imo (DeepSkyStacker / Siril / GIMP are commonly used free alternatives). Source: 10 months ago

• Asahi Ubuntu: does it support PixInSight and Gimp?

  Dear friends of Asahi, I was planning to get a laptop mainly for astrophotography postproduction while traveling, and other normal tasks. Apps required for astrophoto elaboration are just 2: PixInSight and Gimp. An M1 cored MacBook seem a very good machine but I really dislike macOS. I was wondering before spending time and money looking for suitable offer from refurbished market if Asahi Linux should run both... Source: 11 months ago

• The Horsehead Nebula from my front yard

  Subs were calibrated and integrated for each filter using SiriL. In PixInsight I started by cropping the three stacked images, used automatic background extraction, and then combined the three into a colour image. BlurXTerminator on the combined image and StarNet v2 to separate the stars.. Separate multi scale linear transform on starless and luminance, more aggressive on the starless image. Unsharpmask applied to... Source: about 1 year ago

• Files for the NGC 3132 Nebula

  PixInsight (costs money and I haven't tried a free trial). Source: almost 2 years ago

• North America Nebula, NGC 7000

  PixInsight; stacking, calibration, noise reduction. Source: almost 2 years ago

• North America Nebula, NGC7000, Bortle Class 5

  **Shots:** 43 lights of 75 sec each at ISO 1600, 32 darks (Used previous session master bias, and master flat files) **Post processing / Software:** * [Stellarium](https://stellarium.org/): for planning my session :) * [PixInsight](https://pixinsight.com/); stacking, calibration, noise reduction * [Siril](https://siril.org/); final adjustments and stretching * [Starnet++](https://www.starnetastro.com/)... Source: almost 2 years ago

• M31 single 3 minute frame

  There's a lot of freeware out there, but I've started using PixInsight. It let's you do everything from beginning to end pretty much and seems to be what most of the serious AP guys use (maybe final touchups in PhotoShop if necessary). Source: over 2 years ago

• M31 from nearly 30 gigs of .fit files.

  Https://pixinsight.com/ (Lots of tutorials on Youtube and on Pixinsights web site). Source: almost 3 years ago