Thanks for an actual tutorial and not a goddam 5 minute ad before actually diving into it. Very practical and useful and I come back to this frequently! Thank you sir!
Another great tutorial Pat! Thank you. I have to finish processing my comet data tonight, I used APP and then going to finish up in PI. But this tutorial was perfect timing because i wanted to learn how to process everything in PI. Thanks for the very easy to understand and clear instruction. You're the man!
You're going to love PI, Craig. It is extremely powerful. I only know about 20% of its potential. It is so loaded with numerous techniques for astrophotography processing
@@craiglowery4427 Hi Craig, You might want to take a look at this channel ... www.youtube.com/@cosgrovescosmos He has many video tutorials concerning PixInsight Patrick
HI Mike, Thank you for watching my video. When I do add a music track, it usually is at the end of the video where I am wrapping everything up and then show the final images. I try to keep the music audio below 20% when I am speaking then bring it up to full when I am just showing the final images.. I do notice some other youtube videos have the music track too loud. That is a "BOZO no-no" when it comes to editing.
I use Siril for deep sky work and just did my first comet/star separate align & stack - quite the learning experience compared to "normal" stacking. It's interesting to see how PI does it - I'm always on the fence about whether PI is worth the cost and learning curve, it certainly gets nice results. I'm also in Savannah where the weather has turned against us! Hoping it's clear when the comet will appear near Mars on the 11th.
Hi Morey, PI does have a high price tag, but at least, it's a one time cost. And the learning curve ... geeeze! Yes it appears these clouds will be with us all this week. Were in Savannah are you? I'm in Coffee Bluff
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy I shoot astro from my backyard in Habersham Woods. I'm only using Olympus / OMDS cameras and lenses, on Skywatcher mounts, no telescopes, astro cameras, or automation. I occasionally get out to Tybee for dark skies and Milky Way shoots with other members of the Georgia Nature Photographers Association. We're trying to get Fort Pulaski to allow some night shoots. I mostly do nature, birding, and macro, but got into deep sky during covid, when I realized you can do this in our city skies, of course darker skies are better!
Hi Jason. I hope I did you well in the description. Meanwhile, I have you in my que to watch your latest video ... hopefully tonight. I alway enjoy your videos.
Excellent tutorial on the process in PI. I hope to get to try this out when the comet comes south (assuming Auckland hasn't been completed washed away over the next 24hrs 😬)
Hii Logan, Still raining there? The comet will be moving away from earth by the time it gets to your latitude. Currently, it is circumpolar here and is now up all night long. Doesn't do me any good however as the sky is totally cloudy with more clouds for the rest of the week. I am glad I was able to get a few nights of it the last two weeks.
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy yep still raining. Bracing ourselves for another assault by Mother Nature and hoping like hell there isn’t a repeat of the widespread flooding a few days ago 🤞🏼
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Great video - Yut I think the question is: Did you stack the 10 separate images you had of the comet, after you had removed the stars from each frame in StarXT - from what I can tell you did not do any stacking?
Thank for the video, I've been following step by step ,but is a step missing? I ran Star Exterminator and it did output the files to the Comet only and Star folders. In the video you show that next you combined the Comet and Star master images. How did you get the master images? PI didn't open these windows after the Star Exterminator process. Do you have to go back to Weighted batch Preprocessing and stack the files that were output in the Star Exterminator process? I am so close ! Thanks in advance!
Hi Neil, I came across that same thing the other night on a new night of eposures where StarXT didn't produce a star mask. If StarXTerminator doesn't generate a stars only image from the comet stack, take a subframe from the Weighted debayered folder and use that. Use one that is the midpoint of the stacked comet. You will need to run StarXTerminator on that image again to get just the stars.
Exact same issue for me. I have the comet only and stars only images (35 of each) but am not sure if I need to stack them now and if so, how. A key instructional part of this video is missing.
Thanks Pat. Very informative. I will be starting astrophotography soon. Will be getting a desktop for processing. Not sure what to get to be able to process and store large files. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks.
Get a good desktop with a decent graphics card. You will need that for processing. However, you can get away without the graphic card, it will just take longer. Storage is not an issue anymore. You can alway add another hard drive plus you can get an external hard drive to store used data.
Nice video Pat, well done. But isn't there missing a big piece of the video ? The part where you stack the comet images and where you process the comet stacked image
Hi Siegfried, Yes, it is missing. I was trying to edit down the material and apparently I ended up cutting that out. I guess this comes from the department of "Ooops"
thank you sir very informative video. i have a one question if we select first and last image for comet location then pix insight will align comet for you but what if we have a minute gap in between few shots in a middle of session. the dx dy value doesnt align the comet. how to manually align for perticular image. i does not see any option for that. thanks
Hi Abhitanshu, I would imagine that you would select the first image to the last image before the break, then select the first image after the break and select the last image after the break and continue to select to the same way to the end.
Thanks for the very informative video! May I inquire... You did not process the raw files as LRGB in WPBB. I'm assuming you used an OSC camera? If I have LRGB raw files, would the process be the same? Meaning I just add all the LRGB light files into WPBB and follow your process exactly?
When I shoot comets, I prefer to use a OSC camera. In this example, I just stacked the images in DSS using the COMET selection and then went from there. I am now using Weight Batch Pre Processing in PI to stack some of my images. However, I have shot any comets lately and am a bit rusty on my techniques, as the software continues to advance with new tools to learn.
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Thanks. I was interested in the FOV, guess it was pretty small. I'm going to be shooting with a 300mm and full-frame camera if the skies ever clear here in Colorado.
@@MakeAMark ... It was at f/5.6. I had the 0.8x reducer on it. The native state is f/7. I 300 mm scope would do it better justice. I am stuck with cloud now too.
Oh, sorry about that. Did you try this video: th-cam.com/video/i-PPcBR3ptE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XIbgr-zkbk7cQhri I go through Deep Sky Stacker in stacking a comet. I have more comet videos here: th-cam.com/play/PLPljJB3f1iVt18dRcoIPzBmga5jgFiBdW.html
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Yes, I did exactly what you did here, but when it is done. All the folder is here, except the debayer one, pi didn't debayer for me, I dont know why.
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Sorry for late reply, noticed I have the newer version than you. And just found out I need to click the Light section in the "Calibration" tab, to check the box of CFA image on the right side to debayer the image. Thank you anyway :)!
Oh, sorry about that. Did you try this video: th-cam.com/video/i-PPcBR3ptE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XIbgr-zkbk7cQhri I go through Deep Sky Stacker in stacking a comet. I have more comet videos here: th-cam.com/play/PLPljJB3f1iVt18dRcoIPzBmga5jgFiBdW.html
Thanks for an actual tutorial and not a goddam 5 minute ad before actually diving into it. Very practical and useful and I come back to this frequently! Thank you sir!
Thank you for watching my video and supporting my channel
Another great tutorial Pat! Thank you. I have to finish processing my comet data tonight, I used APP and then going to finish up in PI.
But this tutorial was perfect timing because i wanted to learn how to process everything in PI. Thanks for the very easy to understand and clear instruction. You're the man!
Thank you for watching my video and for your comments. I hope this gives you a bit more insight using PixInsight.
Excellent video! Thank you very much for posting it. I look forward to imaging my first comet
Mark
Thank you, Mark.
Very nice Pat! I did finish my own video yesterday, and I might have gone above and beyond with 1 hour and 40 minutes :D
Hi Martin,
Great, I will take a look and put in my humble opinion ... Ha! (Is it possible for me to be humble?)
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing! Working on Pons-Brooks now.
Hi Rodger,
I can't get to Pons-Brooks at the moment since it is not visible with my surrounding trees and the roof.
Very cool Pat. I just bought PI and I'm looking forward to learning more
You're going to love PI, Craig. It is extremely powerful. I only know about 20% of its potential. It is so loaded with numerous techniques for astrophotography processing
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy I need a video on basic deep space processing. Perhaps there’s an add on people use
@@craiglowery4427 Hi Craig,
You might want to take a look at this channel ... www.youtube.com/@cosgrovescosmos
He has many video tutorials concerning PixInsight
Patrick
Thanks! Very helpful.
Thanks for not adding distracting music. I could understand you better.
HI Mike,
Thank you for watching my video. When I do add a music track, it usually is at the end of the video where I am wrapping everything up and then show the final images. I try to keep the music audio below 20% when I am speaking then bring it up to full when I am just showing the final images.. I do notice some other youtube videos have the music track too loud. That is a "BOZO no-no" when it comes to editing.
I use Siril for deep sky work and just did my first comet/star separate align & stack - quite the learning experience compared to "normal" stacking. It's interesting to see how PI does it - I'm always on the fence about whether PI is worth the cost and learning curve, it certainly gets nice results. I'm also in Savannah where the weather has turned against us! Hoping it's clear when the comet will appear near Mars on the 11th.
Hi Morey,
PI does have a high price tag, but at least, it's a one time cost. And the learning curve ... geeeze!
Yes it appears these clouds will be with us all this week.
Were in Savannah are you? I'm in Coffee Bluff
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy I shoot astro from my backyard in Habersham Woods. I'm only using Olympus / OMDS cameras and lenses, on Skywatcher mounts, no telescopes, astro cameras, or automation. I occasionally get out to Tybee for dark skies and Milky Way shoots with other members of the Georgia Nature Photographers Association. We're trying to get Fort Pulaski to allow some night shoots. I mostly do nature, birding, and macro, but got into deep sky during covid, when I realized you can do this in our city skies, of course darker skies are better!
great tutorial Pat! I 'm gonna have to give this a try for sure.. I have some Comet Data that I haven't even looked at yet. CS
Hi Jason. I hope I did you well in the description. Meanwhile, I have you in my que to watch your latest video ... hopefully tonight. I alway enjoy your videos.
Excellent tutorial on the process in PI. I hope to get to try this out when the comet comes south (assuming Auckland hasn't been completed washed away over the next 24hrs 😬)
Hii Logan,
Still raining there? The comet will be moving away from earth by the time it gets to your latitude. Currently, it is circumpolar here and is now up all night long. Doesn't do me any good however as the sky is totally cloudy with more clouds for the rest of the week. I am glad I was able to get a few nights of it the last two weeks.
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy yep still raining. Bracing ourselves for another assault by Mother Nature and hoping like hell there isn’t a repeat of the widespread flooding a few days ago 🤞🏼
is there a process missing where you stacked the starless debayered comet images before you combined with the stars?
I took an image from the debayered folder and used that to create the star mask
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Great video - Yut I think the question is: Did you stack the 10 separate images you had of the comet, after you had removed the stars from each frame in StarXT - from what I can tell you did not do any stacking?
Thank for the video, I've been following step by step ,but is a step missing? I ran Star Exterminator and it did output the files to the Comet only and Star folders. In the video you show that next you combined the Comet and Star master images. How did you get the master images? PI didn't open these windows after the Star Exterminator process. Do you have to go back to Weighted batch Preprocessing and stack the files that were output in the Star Exterminator process? I am so close ! Thanks in advance!
Hi Neil,
I came across that same thing the other night on a new night of eposures where StarXT didn't produce a star mask. If StarXTerminator doesn't generate a stars only image from the comet stack, take a subframe from the Weighted debayered folder and use that. Use one that is the midpoint of the stacked comet. You will need to run StarXTerminator on that image again to get just the stars.
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy thanks! yes Star Xterminator did not generate a star mask. I am going to give it another try based on your suggestion.
Exact same issue for me. I have the comet only and stars only images (35 of each) but am not sure if I need to stack them now and if so, how. A key instructional part of this video is missing.
@@AndyOBrien-z3w Yeah, same here. There seems to be a step missing.
WBPP has a newer version, nice video thanks
Thanks Pat. Very informative. I will be starting astrophotography soon. Will be getting a desktop for processing. Not sure what to get to be able to process and store large files. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks.
Get a good desktop with a decent graphics card. You will need that for processing. However, you can get away without the graphic card, it will just take longer. Storage is not an issue anymore. You can alway add another hard drive plus you can get an external hard drive to store used data.
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Thanks so much. Clear skies!
Nice video Pat, well done. But isn't there missing a big piece of the video ? The part where you stack the comet images and where you process the comet stacked image
Hi Siegfried,
Yes, it is missing. I was trying to edit down the material and apparently I ended up cutting that out. I guess this comes from the department of "Ooops"
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy lol
Looking at other videos, it looks like using the Image Integration tool is missing.
thank you sir very informative video. i have a one question if we select first and last image for comet location then pix insight will align comet for you but what if we have a minute gap in between few shots in a middle of session. the dx dy value doesnt align the comet. how to manually align for perticular image. i does not see any option for that. thanks
Hi Abhitanshu,
I would imagine that you would select the first image to the last image before the break, then select the first image after the break and select the last image after the break and continue to select to the same way to the end.
Thanks for the very informative video! May I inquire... You did not process the raw files as LRGB in WPBB. I'm assuming you used an OSC camera? If I have LRGB raw files, would the process be the same? Meaning I just add all the LRGB light files into WPBB and follow your process exactly?
When I shoot comets, I prefer to use a OSC camera. In this example, I just stacked the images in DSS using the COMET selection and then went from there. I am now using Weight Batch Pre Processing in PI to stack some of my images. However, I have shot any comets lately and am a bit rusty on my techniques, as the software continues to advance with new tools to learn.
Also, you used the debayered files rather than the calibrated ones?
I need to check that out. Plus, so much has changed in PI since I made this video. Thanks for the heads up.
Clear Skies
Curious which scope/camera combination you used in this example?
The telescope was the Orion EON 130mm Triplet Refractor and the camera was the ZWO ASI 071mc Pro
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Thanks. I was interested in the FOV, guess it was pretty small. I'm going to be shooting with a 300mm and full-frame camera if the skies ever clear here in Colorado.
@@MakeAMark ... It was at f/5.6. I had the 0.8x reducer on it. The native state is f/7. I 300 mm scope would do it better justice. I am stuck with cloud now too.
How did you stack the comet?? That’s the whole point of the video and you have left that part out?
Oh, sorry about that.
Did you try this video: th-cam.com/video/i-PPcBR3ptE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XIbgr-zkbk7cQhri
I go through Deep Sky Stacker in stacking a comet.
I have more comet videos here:
th-cam.com/play/PLPljJB3f1iVt18dRcoIPzBmga5jgFiBdW.html
I followed your step but it didnt create the Debayered folder for me, am I missed something?😵
Hi Greg,
Hmmm,
When you did the initial stack, did you go the
Scripts > Batch Processing > WeightedBatch Preprocessing?
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Yes, I did exactly what you did here, but when it is done. All the folder is here, except the debayer one, pi didn't debayer for me, I dont know why.
@@dinokaki ... Are you running the latest version of PI ... 1.8.9 (x64) ... build 1544 or higher?
You probably forgot to check CFA images checkbox for your light frames in Calibration tab in WBPP window
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy Sorry for late reply, noticed I have the newer version than you. And just found out I need to click the Light section in the "Calibration" tab, to check the box of CFA image on the right side to debayer the image. Thank you anyway :)!
Sorry to ask again, but you didn't answer the question how you stacked the comet in PIXINSIGHT. Can you please?
Oh, sorry about that.
Did you try this video: th-cam.com/video/i-PPcBR3ptE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=XIbgr-zkbk7cQhri
I go through Deep Sky Stacker in stacking a comet.
I have more comet videos here:
th-cam.com/play/PLPljJB3f1iVt18dRcoIPzBmga5jgFiBdW.html
@@HeavenlyBackyardAstronomy ImageIntegration, found it!