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Articles on workflow and processing, experiences with equipment, or just general stories related to astronomy or astrophotography.
Making a mosaic
Making mosaics is a great way to increase the field of view of a telescope rig, while keeping maximum detail. In this blog the techniques are described how a 3×3 mosaic was created of Messier 24 using straightforward PixInsight tools
Six most important improvements in WBPP 2.0
The WeightedBatchPreProcessing script in PixInsight has been an invaluable tool to calibrate frames. The recently released version 2 is a massive update with a lot more customisation options and transparency. Read here about the six biggest improvements.
Noise Reduction using MMT
There are many ways to reduce the noise in an image. MultiscaleMedianTransform (MMT) provides a straightforward approach that gives very good results most of the time.
A fast way to make a PSF-image
Making a PSF image for the deconvolution process can be very time consuming. With this script, most of the process is automated, which saves a lot of time.