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Masters of PixInsight
Join MoP's team for streamlined PixInsight expertise, ensuring clarity and simplicity.
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Damian Peach
A multi-award winning astrophotographer with over 25yrs experience.
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Affinity Photo
Serif, developers of the award-winning Affinity Photo
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Bernard Miller
A US-based, multi-APOD astrophotographer with over twelve years of experience in deep sky imaging
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Warren Keller
A US-based, multi-APOD imager and author with over twenty years' experience.
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Alexander Curry
European based amateur astrophotographer, Co-Founder of Telescope Live and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Jarmo Ruuth
Amateur astrophotographer, author of AutoIntegrate and Astro Mosaic.
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Peter Jenkins
Amateur Astrophotographer & Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society specialising in Nebulae mostly presented using the Hubble Palette
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Mark Johnston
I have been fascinated by the night sky since I ‘discovered’ Saturn with my 60mm refractor at the age of 10. An APOD-winning astrophotographer, I have been published in Sky & Telescope, Astronomy Magazine, and Space.com. As a NASA Solar System Ambassador, I have conducted thousands of public outreach programs and am a registered cruise ship speaker on astronomy and space science, as well as a Director of the Phoenix Astronomical Society. I frequently post astrophotography images, news, and tutorials on social media. My solar imaging and videos are particularly popular, and I have conducted extensive research on solar cameras and solar image processing techniques.
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Mustafa Aydın
An astrophotographer with 8+ years of experience and an almost lifelong background in general photography.
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Adam Block
FastTrack your understanding of the HOW and WHY of astronomical image processing with renowned Adam Block.
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James Ritson
UK-based photographer and image retoucher working with Affinity Photo
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Nik Szymanek
UK-based Astro-imager and deep sky image processing tutor
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Ryan Voykin
US Based Amateur Astrophotographer and Creator of the YouTube Channel DarkRangersInc.
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Stellar Xperiences
Three astrophotographers with 30 years’ combined experience in photography and 20 years’ experience in astronomy.
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Straightforward Jupiter Processing: Hybrid Processing Techniques Using Free Softwares

Join award-winning astrophotographer Damian Peach in this tutorial focused on processing an image of Jupiter. This is the go-to guide for beginners and first-timers planetary processing as it covers all the fundamental steps to enhance, color correct, derotate, beautify and refine your image of the gas giant. Part 1: Registax: Applying wavelets and histogram adjustments. Repeat for other datasets. Part 2: WinJUPOS: Derotating processed images and compiling stacked results. Part 3: Photoshop: Aligning channels, adjusting hue/saturation, applying fine sharpening (using unsharp mask), and adjusting the canvas size for the final presentation.
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Introduction to Planetary Imaging

Begin your journey in planetary imaging with this quick start guide. World-renowned planetary astrophotographer Damian Peach takes you through a concise history of the craft, explores the software used for capturing and processing images, and reveals the primary factor influencing planetary imaging.
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Hybrid Processing of Large FOV Galaxies Using APP & Affinity Photo

Dive into the world of hybrid processing, a method that harnesses the top features from multiple astrophotography processing tools. In this tutorial, Nik Szymanek, award-winning astrophotographer and contributor to 'Astronomy Now' magazine, walks you through processing the large FOV galaxy, NGC 247, using both APP and Affinity Photo. The journey starts with APP, where Nik delves into stacking, composition, and light pollution removal - laying the foundation for subsequent post-processing. A brief detour into PixInsight allows for deconvolution using BlurXTerminator (though this step can be substituted or skipped), before transitioning to Affinity Photo. Here, Nik leverages its robust photo editing capabilities, detailing LRGB combination, star and noise reduction, and the nuanced color adjustments necessary to produce an award-worthy galaxy image Contents: APP - Part 1 - Stacking - Cropping - RGB Combination - Light Pollution Removal PixInsight - Part 2 - Blur Xterminator Affinity Photo - Part 3 & 4 - LRGB Combination - Noise Xterminator - Star Xterminator - Colour manipulation - Tone Mapping - Mask editing using layers
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Ultimate Reflection Nebula Processing on PixInsight

Co-Founder of Masters of PixInsight and Telescope Live Tutor, Warren Keller, presents an exclusive masterclass tailored for processing reflection nebulae. Dive deep into the intricacies of reflection nebula processing, beginning post-image integration, with an exclusive focus on post-processing. The tutorials, categorized under chrominance, luminance, and LRGB processing, provide universal application techniques for reflection nebula imaging. Chrominance sessions delve into background extraction, neutralization, colour calibration, and the integration of third-party plugins for advanced tasks such as deconvolution and denoising, alongside balanced colour calibration and delinearization techniques. Luminance sessions, while following a similar path, emphasize the creative nuances vital for luminance data processing. In the LRGB culmination, Warren elucidates advanced methods from star-colour fine-tuning to overlooked structure enhancements in reflection nebulae and final polishing steps for an impeccable image finish. CHROMINANCE PROCESSING 1. Introduction, ChannelCombination, ScreenTransferFunction (STF) 2. DynamicCrop, Save Project 3. BackgroundModelization w/ AutomaticBackgroundExtractor (ABE), STF refinement 4. BackgroundNeutralization, ColorCalibration 5. BlurXTerminator, Expedite processing via the GPU 6. NoiseXTerminator (NXT) 7. RepairedHSVSeparation script, ChannelCombination, PixelMath 8. MaskedStretch, HistogramTransformation (HT) for delinearization, PixelMath LUMINANCE PROCESSING 9. DynamicCrop, ABE, DynamicPSF 10. BXT, NXT 11. HistogramTransformation, LRGBCombination LRGB PROCESSING 12. NXT, SCNR (SubtractiveColorNoiseReduction), StarXTerminator (SXT) 13. CurvesTransformation, RangeSelection 14. CurvesTransformation for contrast and LocalHistogramEqualization (LHE) to boost larger-scale structures 15.LocalHistogramEqualization (LHE) to boost smaller-scale structures, GAME script mask 16. MultiscaleLinearTransform to sharpen w/ general explanation of pushing wavelet bias 17. DarkStructureEnhance script, Save project!, Intro to HDRMultiscaleTransform 18. HDRMT and ColorCorrectedHDRMT script for range compression 19. ExponentialTransformation, PixelMath to replace stars 20. Bill Blanshan star reduction, ColorSaturation