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Offline kayronjm

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New PixInsight Tutorial for Sharpening Fine Details
« on: 2015 August 23 18:08:53 »
Read here: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-sharpening-fine-details.html

This tutorial covers the process of sharpening fine details in one's images, be they monochrome or colour. The tutorial covers the in-depth use of Deconvolution with DynamicPSF on linear images (linearity is required for this) and MultiscaleLinearTransform on linear and non-linear images. ATrousWaveletTransform is normally used but as it is being phased out to obsolete by PixInsight developers, MultiscaleLinearTransform replaces it completely.

[UPDATE]: This tutorial is now back online after a corrective update. Deconvolution with DynamicPSF is now described strictly with linear images (as it should be). The order of presentation of Deconvolution and MultiscaleLinearTransform has been reversed to nail in the idea that both can be used - Deconvolution while the image is linear and MultiscaleLinearTransform later, ideally when the image is non-linear. Also made some edits to the text to ensure correctness and fluidity.
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Offline CharlesW

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Re: New PixInsight Tutorial for Sharpening Fine Details
« Reply #1 on: 2015 September 02 07:50:39 »
Your tutorials are really an excellent resource. I did find this bit a little daunting in the Dynamic PSF instructions, "Now as I look down my list of MAD values, they range between 1.185e-003 and 1.446e-002 (which is just over 10 times larger). We need to avoid values that are too different so in this step, we will exclude a large number of stars. What I tend to do is look through the list and roughly estimate which set of values of MAD has the most stars listed."

I know there are those here that dream in numbers, I'm not one of them. But I did find it relatively simple to use the export to CSV function in Dynamic PSF and then open that file in Excel. You then select and sort the values in the MAD column and on the Insert tab choose the Scatter Chart. It brings up a very easy to read chart showing where the most stars are concentrated.

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Re: New PixInsight Tutorial for Sharpening Fine Details
« Reply #2 on: 2015 September 07 18:40:44 »
Thanks for your tutorials!  They're awesome.

Offline steve71291

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Re: New PixInsight Tutorial for Sharpening Fine Details
« Reply #3 on: 2015 October 12 21:46:04 »
I agree. Your tutorials are great. Keep them coming!