All tutorials listed below are made for Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight.
Find here the Tutorials for old PixInsight 1.8.5
Tutorials v1.8.8
The following tutorials are made with PixInsight version 1.8.8.
Basic Processing Steps
Stacking in PixInsight 1.8.8
In PixInsight 1.8.8 a few new features are available for image stacking. Since I’m using flats now, its time to update my previous Stacking in PixInsight tutorial. All following CFA settings are suitable for CMOS sensors like in my Canon EOS 70D, using the Bayer matrix filter (RGGB). Select the proper settings for your camera […]
Stacking Multiple Sessions in PixInsight
My latest Cygnus Loop, Lion Nebula and Caldwell 9 images contain data from multiple sessions. Since I don’t wanted to use my old combining method, so I tried a new approach (and maybe a better one…) which is suggested in various PixInsight forum threads. So far, it seems to work pretty well. Nevertheless, there are various possibilities […]
Special Tutorials
Drizzle Integration in PI 1.8.8
Drizzle was originally developed for the NASA’s Hubble Deep Field observations. It provides a flexible and efficient way of combining dithered data, preserves photometric and astrometric accuracy, optimal signal-to-noise ratio and approach the best resolution that can be reached with linear reconstruction. (from “A method for the Linear […]