S speleogen Member Oct 14, 2023 #1 Is there a way to count the number of dead pixels in a given image? I've been playing with pixelmath and can use $T==0.0 to locate them, but I need to know how many there are. Thanks for any help, John.B bulrichl Well-known member ...
I think it’s worth giving it a shot. A big factor when considering a camera to use will be its low light capabilities. For the Milky Way you are going to want to get as much light into your camera as you can before the rotation of the ...
You do not need to use the latest mirrorless camera to photograph the Milky Way, even a 10-year-old, entry-level DSLR camera is capable of a beautiful shot. As is the case with most astrophotography projects, the approach is much more important than the equipment itself. Let’s get into...
PixInsight has a great process called ‘SuperBias’, that can process your masterBias as if you would have a stack of several hundreds of bias frames. Basically it aims to getting rid of all the random noise and only leave the fixed noise pattern. See below the difference between a master...
Software likeDeepSkyStacker,Astro Pixel Processor, andPixInsightwill subtract the noise pattern from your final astro image as best as possible. The image stacking process alone (light frames) removes random camera noise, but applying dark frames takes it one step further. Applying all of the rec...
The TIFF file can be edited with any graphic design softwares such as Photoshop, Gimp, Affinity Photo, Luminar. You can also use this type of file with astrophotography dedicated software such asPixInsight. To learn more about how to process TIFF files, read our tutorial : Affinity Photo imag...
I use PixInsight Batch Processor to do my stacking, I started with DSS though and it does an ok job.. Can you upload a single frame from the camera? I've never seen DSS output a file that looks like that. #52 Jairo Vostok 1 ...
Happy Mac M1 user here: KStars/Ekos, Pixinsight, ASTAP, ASI Studio, iOptron Polar, Stellarium, ... all run nicely along. BlurXTerminator on the Neural engine of this chip is actually faster than on my PC. So there is light at this expensive path of hardware. ...
Once these have been removed, the image can be processed with full attention paid to the target. When the processing is complete, the stars can be put back in, or left out. The starless software revolution itself began with StarNet++, a free script for PixInsight. ...
Although I do not currently use PixInsight to process my images, regular contributorBrent Newtonhad this to say about using StarNet++: “for the PixInsight master race, check theSourceforgepage for Starnet, it can be installed as a PixInsight process. It still only works on non-linear images...