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Offline astroedo

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A simple workflow for beginners
« on: 2014 August 24 05:39:51 »
Hi I've just published a simple processing workflow based on a picture from Goddchen M8 postprocessing contest.

It covers all the processing workflow in a simple way, good for beginners.

I hope you'll enjoy it

English version
http://www.radice.biz/articoli/translations/73-pi-processingexamplem8-eng

Versione in italiano
http://www.radice.biz/articoli/74-pi-processingexamplem8-ita

Offline CharlesW

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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #1 on: 2014 August 24 07:50:43 »
Nicely done. Thank you.

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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #2 on: 2014 August 24 08:26:31 »
Very cool. Thanks!

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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #3 on: 2014 September 02 03:24:47 »
Thank you for your good tutorial.
Just a question: why do you use an aggregated image of background with stars for Background Neutralization? I suppose it could be without stars or dso.

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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #4 on: 2014 September 02 07:01:28 »
Nice resource.  Thanks for your efforts.
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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #5 on: 2014 September 02 09:05:37 »
Thank you for your good tutorial.
Just a question: why do you use an aggregated image of background with stars for Background Neutralization? I suppose it could be without stars or dso.

Thank you for reading!

For  BackgorundNeutralization an area where sky is dominant is needed, so a few stars without extended colored halos are ok, the important thing is that you correctly set the Upper limit: I usually use Statistics on the Preview or the aggregated image and I set the Upper limit slightly higher than the median level of the image, in such a way you exclude the stars from the background calculation.

In this particular case I choose to use an aggregated image  from different patches of sky because the background was very uneven and so a single patch of sky wouldn't be representative.

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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #6 on: 2014 September 20 10:41:01 »
Just followed this process as it uses some processes I've not tried before - really pleased I did as it has helped improve my images considerably so that you.

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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #7 on: 2014 September 20 11:34:58 »
Hi Edoardo
I didn't have the time to look at your current tutorial, but I wanted to thank you for the one of the lunar mosaic. It is with it's help, that I could realize my first mosaic of this kind.
Thanks a lot
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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #8 on: 2014 September 21 05:34:24 »
Thank you all for reading, my tutorials are only droplets in PixInsight sea, but I'm happy that you like them.

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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #9 on: 2014 November 02 06:58:09 »
Excellent!

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Re: A simple workflow for beginners
« Reply #10 on: 2015 March 10 19:56:04 »
Edoardo,

Thanks for creating the tutorial!  It is outstanding and I have used it to improve many of my photos on AstroBin.

http://www.astrobin.com/139088/D/ 

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