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Offline vicent_peris

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Hi all,

I'm glad to announce a PixInsight workshop that will take place at the Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, USA, on June 5th to 10th.

This is a newly designed, 6-day long combined workshop that will give the user a more flexible opportunity to learn image processing. On the weekend an introductory workshop to PixInsight and the basic image processing techniques will be offered for up to 40 people. Following this workshop, a 3-day intensive workshop will review more advanced techniques in a fully personalized learning experience for up to 12 people.

As all my other workshops, this workshop has been conceived with a special focus on the active participation of the attendees. Each registered participant will be provided with a personal account on our file servers, where he or she will be able to upload raw data that will be worked out during the workshop. On Sunday we will review a start-to-finish example based on user data, so it is strongly recommended to upload full data sets.

The intensive workshop will be an in-depth review of some more advanced techniques, as well as a longer start-to-finish example. The most interesting part of this workshop is when everyone works with his/her own images. This way, people learn how to apply the recently learnt techniques to their own photos. I will guide everyone in the particular processing steps to achieve an optimal result.

The topics covered will be, among others, the graphical user interface, elementary techniques of astronomical image processing, image delinearization and dynamic range compression, and narrowband imaging.

You can register only on the weekend workshop or the full 6-day workshop. For more information visit the below webpage:

https://pixinsight.com/workshops/tucson-2015

This workshop is being sponsored by the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia. I want to publicly thank Bob Rieger for their help on the organization, we're making this workshop reality thanks to his collaboration.


See you in Tucson!
Vicent.

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Vicent, I registered for the full workshop but it took me directly to PayPal.  There was never an opportunity to provide personal info?  Do you get that via PayPal for further communication with attendees?

Larry Phillips
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Hi Larry,

I received your registration on Friday, no problem. I wrote you an email, did you receive it??


Best regards,
Vicent.

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Vicent, I did not receive your email.  What email did you use?

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Vicent, Was there anything important I need to know in the email?  The one listed in my profile is correct to use.

Larry
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Nothing important, simply to say that in short I'll send you the account details in the PixInsight file server.

Best regards,
Vicent.

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Vicent, will you be sending out future emails to workshop participants that I need to look for or inform you that I did not receive them?  I am concerned I will be left out of the loop on important info if your emails do not make it to me.  Could you try sending another email to verify I receive it?

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Larry, just sent you an email.

Thanks,
Vicent.

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Hi Vincent, I saw that the workshop was sold out and then I heard it was still open. I'm interested in the extended program. Is it still open or sold out? Thank you John Bunyan

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Hi John,

No, the intensive workshop was sold out in one day, sorry. We still have 11 seats in the weekend workshop.


Best regards,
Vicent.

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Hi,

I would want to announce that this workshop is being sponsored by Software Bisque and Starizona. They will be showcasing some of their products in the meeting room and the hotel terrace on Saturday night, as well as giving a short talk for us.


Best regards,
Vicent.
« Last Edit: 2015 May 28 17:12:00 by vicent_peris »

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Vicent, there is some confusion among some of us attending the workshop.  For participants of the first 3 days only, will a data set be provided or is everyone expected to supply their own data?  The way your email reads, the weekend portion participants are to upload a data set of their own.

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Hi Larry,

You're free to upload (or not) your own data sets, but it's not mandatory to upload your data to be able to attend or follow the weekend workshop. The weekend workshop is based on customized examples, so I need data from the users. From these data sets I'll build several examples which will be shared with the full group during the weekend. If you attend only to the weekend workshop, you'll have a smaller data set than people coming to the intensive workshop, but that's because we review more techniques in the intensive one. But, in any case: you'll be provided with all the data you need for the weekend and your work at home.

I sent an email that might further help you.


Best regards,
Vicent.


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Vicent, can we expect any more emails regarding workshop attendance in Tucson?  If not, I have a few questions.

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Hi Larry,

Yes, tomorrow I'll write a short email with some instructions about logistics and the hotel.


Best regards,
Vicent.