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PixInsight is a cross-platform, modular image processing software framework specialized in astrophotography. PixInsight is available for Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
This wiki is a collaborative effort by a number of volunteer PixInsight users. We hope you'll find interesting and useful information on this site. Enjoy!
Contributing to the Wiki
A wiki is a collaborative process. Feel free to contribute to or improve the Wiki. You can help by:- Improve an existing wiki page. This can be as simple as fixing a speeling eeror, to providing a detailed example or clarification of some scientific principle. It could be adding a different process, or improving an existing one.
- Add new content. Found a neat way of using PixInsight? Figured out how to perform some process and would like to share it? Create a page describing it.
- Organize existing content. Not all of us organize information the same way. The neat thing with Wiki's is that it's possible to create different "slices" through the pages. There are the detail pages which contain the actual content, then there are pages that contain pointers to these pages.
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PixInsight Fundamentals/Reference
Note: Currently (Oct. 11, 2009), we mainly evaluated the PI release Information Forum and the Release Announcements back to version 1.5.2 in Announcements Forum for this, adding a few useful references from other sources. Please feel free to add as you like.
Looking for reference type information on Pixinsight usage? This section is a good starting point. For more gentle introductions, see "Using_PixInsight" below.
GUI Functionality: Reference on use of specific GUI features
Process Modules: Reference for specific process modules
Utility Scripts: Reference for scripts provided with PixInsight
Script Functionality: Reference for extending PI in JavaScript
PCL Programming: Reference for extending PI in C++
File Formats: Reference information on supported file formats
Reference Pages: List of all pages with category Reference
Using PixInsight
Installation Notes
Tutorials: A collection of links and articles, giving processing examples of real world pictures. Web pages, videos, ... . More or less official and up-to-date.
PixInsight Wish List
Processing Steps
Sample Workflows
Extending PixInsight
Scripts?
Script Programming?
PCL Programming
Other helpful information
Bibliography on Image Processing and Astrophotography
Introduction to Wavelets
Statistics refresher
