I'm used to using IRAF for command line editing of images and access to image statistics. The Process Console in PixInsight seems just as (if not more) powerful than IRAF, but it seems like it takes much longer (many more characters typed) to get simple tasks done.
PixelMath makes simple image math straightforward. If I have two images called "image1" and "image2", I can easily rescale image2 as:
PixelMath -x=im2*(mean(im1)/mean(im2));
However, if I then want to check the standard deviation of image2, for example, there does not appear to be a straightforward way to get this value to display in the console. PixelMath has Sn and sDev as built in functions/symbol assigners, but the actual value is not displayed in my console.
By invoking PJSR one could do something similar to:
j var image = ImageWindow.activeWindow.mainView.image;
j image.sDev()
but this is a lot of typing for what seems like a simple "request". Additionally, I'm not sure how to specify images within my workspace using this method.
Any suggestions for working quickly with the process console?
