I thanked Harry for his tutorials on another thread, but I of course want to recognize Juan for putting together this incredible set of tools. As I mentioned in the other thread, I was informed of PI when talking to my friend Joe Depasquale, an imaging guy for the Chandra X-ray telescope. (His work is here:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/chronological.html)
I've been using Nebulosity (which I still love) for a lot of processing and getting into Photoshop, but Joe mentioned just how powerful PI can be. I downloaded the trial, worked my way through a few tutorials, and produced my best image of M31 ever from a set of images I thought was a waste.
I'm now going to be able to show my high school astronomy students what is really possible with our observatory setup, actually getting at our great potential (finally!).
Thank you, Juan (and Vincent and Harry) for putting this all together. I hope to read much of these forums and eventually contribute!
