Light Vortex Astronomy has moved and changed!

[kayronjm]

Hello all. I post this thread in order to get the word out that my website, Light Vortex Astronomy, has undergone some large changes. This used to run on Google Blogger but is now running on Weebly. The original blog has now been deleted and the new website has taken over. A .com domain name was also purchased and so the website address is now:

www.lightvortexastronomy.com

The old page-specific URLs will no longer work but so long as they point to the above website address, they will transfer you to the Error 404 page I set up on the new website. If however they point to the old .blogspot.com address, you will be notified that the blog has now been deleted.

The following is a run-down of the current set of PixInsight processing tutorials on Light Vortex Astronomy:



- Introduction to PixInsight and its Interface: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-introduction-to-pixinsight-and-its-interface.html

- Pre-processing (Calibrating and Stacking) Images in PixInsight: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-pre-processing-calibrating-and-stacking-images-in-pixinsight.html

- Preparing Monochrome Images for Colour-Combination and Further Post-processing: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-preparing-monochrome-images-for-colour-combination-and-further-post-processing.html

- Combining Monochrome R, G and B Images into a Colour RGB Image and applying Luminance: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-combining-monochrome-r-g-and-b-images-into-a-colour-rgb-image-and-applying-luminance.html

- Colour-Calibrating Images: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-colour-calibrating-images.html

- Producing Masks: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-producing-masks.html

- Noise Reduction: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-noise-reduction.html

- Sharpening Fine Details: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-sharpening-fine-details.html

- Enhancing Feature Contrast: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-enhancing-feature-contrast.html

- Reducing Light Pollution Effects, Removing Gradients and Artificial Flattening: http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/tutorial-reducing-light-pollution-effects-removing-gradients-and-artificial-flattening.html



Feel free to have a quick read of the welcome blog post that goes over where stuff is:

http://www.lightvortexastronomy.com/blog/welcome-to-light-vortex-astronomy-20

Enjoy!

[Roberto Coleschi]

Thanks  a lot Kayron, your blog and it's contents are very useful..

[kayronjm]

Thanks Roberto, I'm glad you like it!

[Eddy Timmermans]

Hey,
I'm also very pleased with the new site. I use these tutorials quite a lot lately.
Too bad the information for a DSLR workflow is located in the archived section.
But I try to use the LRGB tutorials for my DSLR photos.
My pictures ar not that good for the moment. I have no guiding, and imaging from light polluted Belgium is not ideal. A lot of noise and gradients. And not too many good frames to choose from.
I also made the error of stretching too much, causing a blotchy background. So I don't stretch too much now.
I practice as much as I can to learn the workflow by heart. I'm not that good at using process icons .
Thanks for the tutorials !
Eddy

[kayronjm]

Hi Eddy,

I'm working with a gentleman who e-mailed me months ago. He uses a DSLR to do his astrophotography, so I asked him if he would be ok to provide me with a few pre-processed images that I can then post-process as example workflows. So more to come on that front!

Best Regards,
Kayron

[Sean]

Kayron,

Thanks again for all your hard work on these tutorials. The new website looks great.

I've updated my PI Links pages at www.drakevisual.com/pi-links-by-topic to reflect the new locations. Please let me know if you see any problems.

Sean

[bmhjr]

I also appreciate all of your tutorials, as well as the many others that have contributed to this great forum.

Since I am still a beginner and working with widefield images containing dense starfields, I am having a lot of difficulty getting consistent good results.  If you ever decide to make some DSLR examples with dense starfields, that would be great!  Thanks again.

[dzso.bacsi]

Congratulation for the new site, wish you a very happy New Year and "thanks for all the *fish..."

*for all the excellent tutorials which put my processing on the right tracks and having been my bible ever since!

+1 votes for not forgetting DSLR people