Congrats on BatchPreprocessing

[Warhen]

Hello all,
              Molto congratulatzione (so excited, I'm speaking Italian) to Kai, Juan, and Nickolay (hope I'm not leaving anyone out) for the latest update of BatchPreprocessing! Frankly I was not using PI for preprocessing due to the multi-step procedure, especially with Bayer images. Today I tried the latest version with 37 OSC images, a Master Dark and Bias, and individual Flats. Following Harry's lead, and using defaults but w/ Lanczos-3, The run went flawlessly!! I am very pleased, well done indeed. I look forward to testing with monochrome data.

One amazing benefit was the fact that the data sets were of different rotation angles. Whereas, these background differences were very pronounced using different software to stack, they were virtually undetectable here. IOW, cropping was not required. What in the algorithms would account for such intense normalization? 

Thanks again to Kai and Juan.

[vicent_peris]

One amazing benefit was the fact that the data sets were of different rotation angles. Whereas, these background differences were very pronounced using different software to stack, they were virtually undetectable here. IOW, cropping was not required. What in the algorithms would account for such intense normalization?

Hi,

What makes the BPP script to run so well is the tools involved in the processing steps, like ImageIntegration, StarAlignment or ImageCalibration.

Regards,
Vicent.

[Warhen]

Vicent, I was asking specifically about what I would term the 'normalization' of the images. In layman's terms, two fields of different rotation would usually result in drastically different brightness levels and characteristics. Here in BPP, as mentioned they looked nearly homogenous. I'd imagine I'd have seen this as well had I used the individual utilities. As I hadn't before, it was an extra bonus. Thanks!

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Warren,

Thank you so much.

I was asking specifically about what I would term the 'normalization' of the images. In layman's terms, two fields of different rotation would usually result in drastically different brightness levels and characteristics. Here in BPP, as mentioned they looked nearly homogenous.

Indeed, this is a matter of normalization. Our ImageIntegration tool implements robust statistics techniques that can make a significant difference with other applications based on simpler methods.

[Harry page]

Hi

Warren , Will you be doing some nice vids soon http://www.ip4ap.com/pixinsight.htm

quality stuff , soon to added to the mix

Harry

[Euan]

Just noticed this feature...

Wow, well done guys. This is a bit of game-changer, it's the one thing I always hear people complain about with PI. Hopefully we won't need Deep Sky Stacker any more