Whats the Dimmest Amount You Can Image: Discussing telescope transmission, 32bit limits, and more. Seti Astro 2026-09-28 | Whats the Dimmest Amount You Can Image: Discussing telescope transmission, 32bit limits, and more.
WaveScale HDR: Revealing What was Lost in the Glare! Seti Astro 2025-01-26 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinsetiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suiteIntroducing my WaveScale HDR tool that brings a great addition to Seti Astro Suite. Base on the à trous (French for "with holes") wavelet transform is an undecimated wavelet transform used for image analysis. Unlike traditional discrete wavelet transforms, it does not downsample the image at each scale, preserving the spatial resolution. This makes it particularly suitable for multi-scale image processing tasks like HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Blemish Blaster: Available now in Seti Astro Suite for Everyone! Seti Astro 2025-01-24 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinsetiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suiteAwhile ago I created Blemish Blaster solely as a script in PixInsight. This was to remove blemishes through surrounding content to preserve structure and be a marked improvement over the Clone Stamp tool. I have now compiled it and brought it into Seti Astro Suite so you can blast those blemishes away!!!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Lets Get Processing: Narrowband Workflow in Seti Astro Suite Seti Astro 2025-01-23 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinThere is enough to do a complete workflow now in Seti Astro Suite. Let's do a complete narrowband SHO workflow!Newest release of SAS here: github.com/setiastro/setiastrosuite/releasesLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
ADBE for Everyone! Seti Astro Suite now has Seti Astro Automatic Background Extraction! Seti Astro 2025-01-21 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinThe number 1 most requested thing has always been can I make ADBE stand alone. Well that day is TODAY!!!!setiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suiteLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Seti Astro Suite V2.5: New Functions, GXP & SN2 Integration, Multi Image support! Seti Astro 2025-01-20 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinsetiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suiteBig update as we continue to improve this tool as a community! Yes this does now have some similar functionality to other astro editing and photo editing software, but I am always annoyed when i have to jump from program to program. So I implemented a ton of tools into SAS including integration for Graxpert gradient removal and Starnet2 star removal.This will be part 1 of a 2 part video where next video I will cover processing workflow in SAS!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Cosmic Portrait in Profile: SH2-311 Skull and Crossbones Nebula Seti Astro 2025-01-16 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinI finally turned my scope around and looked south. This is probably at the very southern extreme of what I can image. Only getting a few really good hours when it finally rose high enough. That didn't stop me from trying the entire time it was over 10degrees. Ended up needing to cull about half the frames though being so low there is a lot of atmosphere between me and space that caused issues.Usually referred to as the Skull and Crossbones nebula, I was completely struck by how much it looks like a person in profile looking off to the left in this image with a long slender neck of gas and nebula and possibly some sort of headress on. Maybe like one of those old Eqyptian statues.I absolutely enjoyed trying some other palettes with my Perfect Palette Picker and made a pretty cool SHO-OHS mirror image.The nebula itself has a lot of interesting structure. 2 different knots of very bright hydrogen and sii and some very large arcs of OIII. Spitzer alone discovered 45 young stellar objects within the area here. Maybe it is because it is so far south in the sky there isn't much listed in any of the catalogues for it. There are two areas Haffner19 and 18 which is home to young open star clusters. Even the bright star HD64315 which gets a lot of credit in this area is the star ionizing the neck structure. All the interesting objects are above it! Link to astrobin: https://astrob.in/dt5jof/0/ Comments and suggestions welcome!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Blink Comparator Updates: As Requested By You! Seti Astro 2025-01-15 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinI had numerous requests to expand out and make the Blink Comparator better. Added a lot of nice features which should help a ton in your preprocessing! Let me know if there are other features you are looking for in Seti Astro Suite!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Perfect Palette Picker: Explore and Choose the Perfect Astro Palette for You! Seti Astro 2025-01-14 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinsetiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suitesetiastro.com/pjsr-scriptsGrab the Perfect Palette Picker!Primed to provide passionate people with powerful possibilities, the Perfect Palette Picker is your premier tool for producing polished palettes. Packed with precision, this program processes pristine pixels, presenting peerless potential for photographers and pixel perfectionists alike. Whether you're prioritizing palette personalization or pursuing professional-grade results, the Perfect Palette Picker promises performance that’s unparalleled.Perfect for pushing the boundaries of post-processing, this palette powerhouse puts practical and precise tools in your hands, allowing you to paint your project with purposeful palettes. Say goodbye to problematic workflows and prepare for a productive plunge into palette perfection. Pick your palette, preview it promptly, and push it into practice—all with the Perfect Palette Picker!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Caught a Lunker! NGC896 The FishHead Nebula Seti Astro 2025-01-13 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinHLP script repository: raw.githubusercontent.com/HiddenLightPhotography/HLPAstroScripts/mainHLP youtube: youtube.com/@Hidden.Light.PhotographyI never intended to get a lot of data on this target. It was a target I chose to grab a few hours in the early evening before my main targets would rise. Slow but surely I got more and more data on it over many nights. An hour here, couple hours there. Before I knew it I had really gathered a good bit of data on it and went to see what was there. I was not disappointed! The very familiar fish head nebula is now a large lunker of a fish surrounded by cosmic sea weeds and nebula pond life I dont see in other images of this. There are some very amazing dark column structures and huge flows of gas especially around the mostly obscured OIII emission region under the belly of the beast! Another area with amazing dark structure is near the bright star HD14817 at the left edge of the image. In the lower right where was substantially more SII emission leading to a darker red hue in my SHO image.I didn't realize this area would be so dense with nebulosity across the whole of the image. It is so dense in fact there is only 1 galaxy peaking through. Besides its designation ZOAG G133.96+00.87 there is nothing about it listed. Boy does it look very tiny compared to the breadth of nebulosity everywhere. This is by no means a wide angle image either.I know most people go for the heart of the heart nebula, Melotte15, but I am glad I decided to get an hour here and there on this one!Link to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/gtq64h/0/Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Seti Astro Suite V2.0: Major Overhaul and Blink Comparator Seti Astro 2025-01-09 | If you want to become part of the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinMajor overhaul to Seti Astro Suite allowing images to flow from tab to tab and introducing my Blink comparator to preview your raw images, delete the file, or push it for some quick processing.Updates to Cosmic Clarity Satellite Removal as well!SAS V2.0: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TlfT1PRssGwseXRY7pZnJaSijPTltvOO?usp=drive_linkCosmicClarity: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MKsuA4XgIMd0cJshJHEWdN782cXvzR3Y?usp=drive_linkLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
PixInsight V1.9 Quirks and Need to Knows Seti Astro 2025-01-07 | If you want to join the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinThere are a number of items not documented in the release announcement or just buried that are good things to know about the new version of PixInsight.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Frequency Separation Tool and Satellite Trail Removal AI3 Seti Astro 2024-12-31 | If you want to join the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinSeti Astro Suite and PI script with Frequency Seperation now available and I finally finished satellite trail removal AI3 with user definable sensitivity for the clipping.setiastro.com/cosmic-claritysetiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suitesetiastro.com/pjsr-scriptsLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
M78 Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula embedded within Ghostly Ha Seti Astro 2024-12-29 | If you want to join the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinOften overlooked this time of year with the big focus on objects like the horsehead or orion nebula, just off the side of Orion is the Casper the Friendly Ghost nebula M78. A very bright pair of reflection nebulae with dark secrets hidden behind dust lanes. Curious about that I took a decent amount of dedicated Ha data and continuum subtracted it from the red channel. The amount of Ha filling and swirling around the whole image was breathtaking! Also in Ha hidden structures in the dark dust lanes peaked through revealing dozens of Herbig-Haro and Young Stellar Objects! I made two seperate collages showcasing them. I absolutely struggled on how to merge the Ha with the RGB. There was just sooo much Ha swirling and filling the image it was a balancing act to not wash out the beautiful RGB. In the end I decided to showcase the RGB as the main image with the HaRGB as the mouseover. Please let me know in the comments if you prefer either HaRGB over the standard RGB image and I will gladly swap them.Link to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/lom583/0/Be sure to check out my interactive slider on my site: setiastro.com/nebula#casper
New QoL Improvements in PixInsight! Drag and drop STF, astrometric solutions, and more! Seti Astro 2024-12-28 | If you would like to join the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinCovering some of the new Quality of Life improvements in V1.9 of PixInsight. You can now drag and drop stf from one image to another, astrometric solution copying, and image synchronization.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
MultiScale Gradient Correction and MARS Initial Release is Here! Time for a Look! Seti Astro 2024-12-21 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinPixInsight V1.9 is here, along with a huge amount of updates the long awaited MARS initial release and Multiscale Gradient Correction is here. Let's dive in and look at the good and the bad.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Curves Utility in Seti Astro Suite! Perfect for all your AstroImages including Solar! Seti Astro 2024-12-20 | If you want to be part of the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinsetiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suiteAfter my Chroma vs Saturation video it came to my attention not all curves editors were created equal and some popular free astroimaging software doesnt even have a curves tool! This one is made for our hobby! Direct manipulation of a lot of different items.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Curves Utility Coming Soon to Seti Astro Suite! #setiastro Seti Astro 2024-12-19 | Full Curves Utility coming soon to Seti Astro Suite!!
Chroma Vs Saturation: Color Theory for AstroImagers Seti Astro 2024-12-16 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinLink to ChromaDemo tool:-Windows: drive.google.com/file/d/1k7grePgrdIiQTJDAndfuhRKlf5chuS9P/view?usp=drive_link-Mac: drive.google.com/file/d/1NAwNb-fpo03GKoYyvBpgWSrfGA_UW-Fr/view?usp=drive_link-Linux: drive.google.com/file/d/1BFZWspJECtaQAcEQisefEAuOPVU9sy4N/view?usp=drive_linkTime for a little color theory. What the heck even is Chroma or Saturation. How does it affect our astro images? Should you be using one or the other? Never thought about it and now you are really curious for no reason? This is the video for you!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
NGC2175 Monkey Head Nebula: Who named it that?? Seti Astro 2024-12-15 | We would love to have you as a channel member:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinLink to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/x2kvrh/0/This has been on my list for awhile. Unfortunately I had to toss out almost a full night of images do to high clouds. That said I was amazed at how much surrounding structure in Ha there was for this target! Most of the images I saw prior to shooting this seemed to show NGC2175 pretty isolated in the surrounding blackness. That just isn't the case at all! For the palette, after seeing the initial SHO image, with Ha completely dominating the entire scene I had to pivot what I wanted. Ended up running the great ForaxxPaletteUtility script by PaulymanAstro as well as an HOO+SII blend I did myself. Seeing both had their strengths and weakness I averaged them together to get my final palette (Foraxx had the nice bright blue center and HOO+SII had the great reds around the main bubble of nebula). There are some really great little things peaking through. SH2-252E is really cool. It looks like it is being ionized by UCAC4 553-022951 -- Eclipsing Binary but there are infact a lot of young stellar objects within there. It is a true star forming region unto itself!Another really weird structure is just listed as WISEA J060825.57+210456.8 Infrared Source, but it does not look like anything i've seen and it is very faint on the IRSA finder charts as well. It is really small, just 12"x7" at its biggest. So if anyone has a big scope on a mountain they want to take an image of I'd be excited to see it 06h08m25.5706s, +21d04m56.889sOne other intriguing area are the giant loops of Ha getting blown to the right in the image (north) of the entire structure which seem not commonly seen in images of this particular target along with a shock front above (east) the main structure.Comments always welcome!!
3 Scopes 1 Nebula: Walk-through PixInsight Processing Guide Seti Astro 2024-12-14 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinGot a situation where you need to combine data from different scopes with different focal lengths with even different cameras and filter types? Let's go through working an example with thoughts on how to approach this sort of problem. This will be a video showing how I tackle these sorts of things and shows my thought process as we move through the processing. Hopefully this helps others out there how to tackle new processing issues and situations as they come up! Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Cosmic Clarity Keeps Getting Better: Updated Non-stellar models and Camera RAW support Seti Astro 2024-12-13 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinSpent the week training the non-stellar sharpening model from the ground up (sharpening is now much more accurate and true to the data in the image) , also continued to improve the stellar sharpening, satellite removal, as well as added camera raw support for satellite removal. No need to convert the raw files now before running through the satellite remover. Seti Astro Suite also has improved cosmic clarity usability and feedback with Cosmic Clarity.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Seti Astro Suite and Cosmic Clarity: New Stellar Models, XISF Batch, Dark Theme, and More! Seti Astro 2024-12-09 | We would love to have you in our community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinsetiastro.com/cosmic-claritysetiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suiteBig updates, new stellar sharpening model, satellite removal and monitoring within SAS, batch processing conversion for XISF Liberator, Dark Theme and more!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
What Fortunes Do You See Gazing in the Crystal Ball Nebula: NGC1514 Seti Astro 2024-12-04 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinWhat a great little planetary nebula (and it is pretty small. 2arcmin in diameter for the bright inner part and 3arcmin in diameter for the outer halo)! It sits just 1500 lightyears away. It was this object that made Herschel rethink a lot of what he though the heavens were comprised of. I took a full set of LRGB images as well as dedicated OIII and Ha images to give as much detail into this little PN as I could. Not only is the PN itself just a gem, there are so many interacting galaxies in the background which would easily fit into the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. One very intriguing one to me is one with an interacting double lobed structure (LEDA 1905882). The WISE J04085.78+311431.4 with pinwheel or octopus arms is sitting at a staggering 685 million light years away. It truly must be quite massive to have so much detail resolved on it. Looking through the NED database and IRSA finder charts I may have some of the best resolution of these galaxies in an image. There is also dust reflecting off bright magnitude 8 star HD26125 that is designated Ced28 Interstellar Medium.Link to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/p2m8m3/0/Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
AstroImaging Rig Setup and No NVIDA No Problem: Cosmic Clarity Update! Seti Astro 2024-11-30 | If you want to join the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinCosmic Clarity Suite with Non-NVIDIA Hardware support: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MKsuA4XgIMd0cJshJHEWdN782cXvzR3Y?usp=drive_linkI have had some requests to explain my astroimaging rig setup. I have nothing too fancy but here it is!!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
5000 Subscribers! I cant believe how big our little community is getting! #setiastro Seti Astro 2024-11-30 | ...
Raging Fire in the Flaming Star Nebula Seti Astro 2024-11-27 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinLink to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/vbrl2x/0/I have not imaged the Flaming Star Nebula and finally decided to put the scope that direction. What a surprise I had when SII seemed even stronger than Ha and OIII was almost nonexistent. The SII (not surpising) was more detailed, but the surprise to me was the extend of it. Filling the frame even more than the Ha. The OIII I believe is mostly not OIII but part of the reflection nebula around V* AE Aur. There are only 2 visible galaxies peaking through and just barely, the entire image is just emission nebula. Orientated this way it really reminds me of a raging forest fire. You can almost see the movemetn of the flames reach up and getting blue hot up towards V* AE Aur. I also thought the HSS+OIII palette just looked so cool and mystical.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Cosmic Clarity Suite Update: Satellite Removal V1.1 Seti Astro 2024-11-25 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinLink to Cosmic Clarity Suite: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MKsuA4XgIMd0cJshJHEWdN782cXvzR3Y?usp=drive_linkBased on the suggestion from a couple viewers I have included blackclipping the satellite trail. This is perfect for your incoming telescope images prior to stacking! This will set the satellite trail at pixel values of 0.000 allowing the stacking program just to ignore those pixels completely.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Good Bye Satellite Trails: Cosmic Clarity Satellite Trail Removal Tool with Realtime Monitoring Seti Astro 2024-11-23 | If you want to join the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinsetiastro.com/cosmic-claritydrive.google.com/drive/folders/1MKsuA4XgIMd0cJshJHEWdN782cXvzR3Y?usp=drive_linkSatellite trails are becoming more and more of a problem in our sub exposures. Don't throw out the exposure because of satellite trails, remove the trails from the image!! Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Image Inserts In PixInsight: Using AstroMark Signature Adder Seti Astro 2024-11-19 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinRecently a viewer reached out using the Signature Adder in a clever way I wasn't even thinking about using it for. This will showcase how to make an insert using Signature Adder. I am sure there are many other uses for it too. HDR compositing comes to mind. Yes, I know you can easily do something like this in Photoshop, or Gimp, etc but the more options you have within a single piece of software the better in my opinion.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Seti Astro Suite: Major Update and Full Cosmic Clarity Integration Seti Astro 2024-11-13 | If you want to become a channel member we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinSAS: setiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suiteCC: setiastro.com/cosmic-clarityThis is what Cosmic Clarity sorely needed, a good user interface. No longer do you need to manually put files in and out of those input and output folders. You can even run Sharpen and Denoise back to back!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
XISF Liberator: Standalone XISF Viewer & Converter Seti Astro 2024-11-10 | If you want to join the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinMy Site: setiastro.com/xisf-liberatorDrive Location: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tuqm5OPTstnA8ogf1vUfcYpCXuL4lgrK?usp=drive_linkYou all probably have FITS Liberator. This is a natural program for XISF files in order to view the image, do an autostretch on it, view the metadata and more importantly convert it to various image types which will also preserve the astrometric solution found by PixInsight and convert it properly into the FITS header for the fits format.Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Whats In My Image: Free Standalone Version of My Very Popular PI Script!! Seti Astro 2024-11-08 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinI didn't think it would be possible, but here we are! I spent a long time getting this together so everyone can use my very popular WIMI! Now anyone can explore any astrophoto and see what what all is known and maybe you will find something new not in any database!!I have also fully implemented this with Seti Astro's Suite as another tab too. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux!setiastro.com/whats-in-my-imageWIMI Drive Folder: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cNGjmqWV2JCWBivSLQ6MOl-y6AzSaLre?usp=drive_linkSAS Drive Folder: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TlfT1PRssGwseXRY7pZnJaSijPTltvOO?usp=drive_linkLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Open Multiple Instances of PixInsight: Quick How To Seti Astro 2024-11-07 | If you want to become a channel member we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinWaiting on PixInsight to finish WBPP that is going to take hours but you still want to play around with data? Well open a second instance of PixInsight and keep right on processing!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Supernova and Asteroid Hunter: Script to Search for Anomalies in your AstroImages Seti Astro 2024-11-04 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinScript to automate the process of wading through your astro subframes looking for anomalies. Maybe you will find a supernova in that galaxy you are reshooting, asteroid passing through, maybe something unknown!My other video on creating an asteroid annotated animation: youtu.be/8xmsWGyye28?si=WD6RU2O-QKwe0RyfLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Affinity Photo Bit Depth Deception: Not all as it seams. Export settings you need for CosmicClarity Seti Astro 2024-11-01 | We would love to have you in the community!:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinTrying to get Cosmic Clarity to work with the output from Affinity Photo was a challenge and I finally nailed down why it was so. The 32bit format in the export is not as it seems!!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Seti Astros Editing Suite Release: More Free Tools for Everyone! Seti Astro 2024-10-31 | If you want to become a member we would gladly welcome you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinMy Astro Editing Suite pulls more of my scripts out of PixInsight and makes them available to everyone that doesn't have PI. Your one stop shop for Statistical Stretch, Star Stretch, NBtoRGB stars, Halo-B-Gon, and Continuum Subtraction Utilitysetiastro.com/seti-astros-editng-suitedrive.google.com/drive/folders/1TlfT1PRssGwseXRY7pZnJaSijPTltvOO?usp=drive_linkLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
How Far Can We Look? Deep on the Perseus Galaxy Chain Seti Astro 2024-10-30 | If you want to be part of the community we would love to have you:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinLink to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/m46s2w/0/I really wanted to see just how deep I could go in the backyard. Chose a random patch of galaxies that I would have full view of almost the entire night and started. Didn't have any idea what I would end up seeing, interesting or not. I figured Luminance would be where I would get the best detail and depth and got just over 1400 60" exposures (23.5hrs). Got just enough color data I would be happy with (64x3min each for R, G, and B) and decided I better grab some Ha. You never know I you may see some Ha tendrils linking galaxies. What I found in Ha was much more intriguing! A huge, VERY dim band running across the field of view. Boy is it dim too. After 32x15min exposures and continuum subtracting I saw just enough of it I decided to double the exposure time and got 64x15min in Ha. For the final image it was tough controlling the slight variation in gradients during continuum subtraction to really push a lot to the Red channel, but below I have the Continuum Subtracted minimally processed image too. No image of this region I have seen has that in it! No idea what structure it belongs to.There are soooo many galaxies when you star so long in a single patch of the sky too. May weren't cataloged in any easy to access surveys but I did find a galaxy far far away, more than a point source in the image, sitting a staggering 1.8 Billion Light years away. There are Quasars in the image much farther away (out to 20Billion light years!!).Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Come take a walk where dinosaurs roamed... Lets uncover SH2-206 the Fossil Footprint Nebula Seti Astro 2024-10-28 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinLink to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/97tibe/0/For an object with a very bright central portion I am surprised this isn't imaged more! There was lots of detail even in the OIII and SII filters. Since there was so much hydrogen filling the entire frame a traditional SHO palette would have been difficult to tone the green down. I decided to go with the HOO+SII palette that Adam Block recently put a video out on, although he was not the first to do it as even in Jurgen's Toolbox the NB Combination tool defaults to that palette, I figured this may be a good target to use that approach on anyways. There are a number of very massive stars in the central region that really is driving the emission of everything with their strong UV light. OIII is the hardest to ionize and really is mostly centralized around that cluster near the core. A number of very dark dust lanes are through out the image too giving it some really nice contrast Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
The Double Galaxy Cluster of NGC507 Seti Astro 2024-10-23 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinLink to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/km4o09/0/The more subframes I got the more tiny and faint galaxies I started to see. Led me down the path of just going for it and getting a bunch of luminance data to see what was out there. Boy was I not disappointed. A number of very strange galaxies indeed! The craziest is NGC483 with a very faint wheel of stars surrounding it, reminds me of Hoag's Object, the SDSS color image barely shows the hoop around it. There is also the strangely shaped PGC5002. There are the two large galaxy clusters in the DES catalog to either side of the image as well. Not to mention a quasar sitting at a redshift of 3.46 and 22.5Billion Lightyears away!! This is one of those images you need to view at full resolution both the non-annotated and annotated versions and explore around. For all the quasars I included the redshift and distance to them as well. There is also a giant cluster of galaxies just below NGC507 that didn't have any easy way of getting the names on if any. That cluster must truly be at a far distance out there!!Comments always appreciated!!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Statistical Stretch for Everyone! Free astrophotography stretching software based on my PI Script! Seti Astro 2024-10-21 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinI have taken my Statistical Stretch script for PixInsight and ripped it out and created a stand alone program for everyone! Load in your linear png, tiff, or fits file and stretch it with all the same feature I have in my PixInsight script!Clear skies and I hope everyone gets some great use out of this!setiastro.com/statistical-stretchDirect link to the drive: drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1_kZDs8gFECLjEJg81ZyKSDvmZ9z4z2ItLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Astrobin Mouse Over Tutorial: Just how do they do that??? Seti Astro 2024-10-20 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinEver wonder how people do the cool mouse overs on their images in Astrobin? Here's how to do it!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
NGC1333: A Dusty Embryo Nebula Seti Astro 2024-10-15 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinWhat an intriguing object!! In the middle of a very broad dust cloud there is this gem featuring reflection nebula, new star forming regions, dark nebulosity, outflows, and the most Herbig-Haro objects I have ever seen in one of my images. This is also the deepest in RGB I have ever gone on a target as I normally shoot almost entirely narrowband but wanted to try something different. I did collect a decent amount of Ha data that I continuum subtracted and added into the Red channel to really highlight those HII regions of stellar birth. Another big surprise to me was that the entire frame was full of dust nebulosity, the field is so dense that there are only 3 galaxies in the background peeking through at all! Below I have compiled some collages of some various objects and there is even one visible MASER. Not sure why it is called the embryo nebula, but the dozens of Young Stellar Objects and Herbig-Haro objects confirm there is new stellar life forming in there!!Link to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/bloqft/0/Link to my site: setiastro.com/nebulaLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Enhance Your Space Images with Space Telescopes! Data Included to try! Seti Astro 2024-10-14 | Ekster is having a sale! Get up to 30% off with my code: SETIASTRO going to partner.ekster.com/SetiAstroLink to Light Masters: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i8_unRvsdUMswfzjuQ35B_Chh-VTvrjW?usp=drive_linkLet's enhance our images with what the professionals use! Surprisingly the Spitzer Space Telescope (predecessor to JWST) has a resolution that almost matches up perfectly with our backyard images! Together we can work through the steps.We would love to have you in our community!:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Cosmic Clarity: Going Linear!! Seti Astro 2024-10-11 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinI think this is the update we all have been waiting for. Linear data support in Cosmic Clarity!! No need to stretch the data first. I have also added support for 16-bit tiff files as so many users were trying to use 16bit files. 32bit floating point is still highly recommended, especially with linear data!Get the latest versions setiastro.com/cosmic-clarityLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Whats In My Sky: Free celestial object planning tool! Seti Astro 2024-10-09 | We would love to have you part of the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinThis has been a long time coming creating this program. It was requested by a viewer awhile ago and it has been very technically challenging to get going. I'm happy to announced the release of What's In My Sky. A free tool to help you plan what is up there for you to image!Windows, MacOS, and Linux Versions now available!!!setiastro.com/whats-in-my-skyLooking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Peer Into the Soul Nebula (LBN673) Seti Astro 2024-10-04 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinEveryone likes doing the heart of the heart nebula. Well I want to peer into the soul! Just some amazing objects to be found in here. The region I find especially beautiful is the figure I'm calling the Mountaineer climbing up Spirit Mountain within the Soul Nebula. Under the roots of that mountain is an HII emission region just streaming off both Ha and SII and being fueled by a chemically peculiar star. In the great OIII bubbles of the soul you can find some amazing examples of globules both dark and ones reflecting the surrounding stellar light, and one object you this is a globule but is actually a galaxy! There is even a portion where it looks like the fingers are casting shadows on a hillside. What objects do you see?Link to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/m0sd16/0/Comments and Suggestions Appreciated!!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Cosmic Clarity DeNoise: Free AI Denoising! Standalone or with PixInsight Seti Astro 2024-10-01 | We would love to have you be part of the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinWebsite for all details: setiastro.com/cosmic-clarityWindows Version: drive.google.com/file/d/1WQvQvrrLFgzbZwe-exeHjECmawHKYGyS/view?usp=drive_linkMacOS Version: drive.google.com/file/d/1R77XP-_E9w6ytd9mXe20h5LXZBtSV9XS/view?usp=drive_linkMy model was trained on mono and luminance data. Unlike some other denoising this allows it to denoise fully mono or color data! Can be used as standalone or with pixinsight. So Siril users (and other users of different astro software) can take advantage of both the denoising and sharpening programs!!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Gone Shrimpin: SH2-188 The Shrimp Nebula in SHO Foraxx Seti Astro 2024-09-29 | We would love to have you in the community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinSH2-188 is really showing off what my imaging newt can do! Not only does it easily show the full main circle of the planetary nebula but there is a much larger and fainter outer bubble in hydrogen and much fainter in SII. Commonly called the Shrimp nebula is very fitting from where I am imaging down near the bayous of Louisiana where shrimpin boats come in and out of daily!So it does appear there is a double bubble of expanding gasses and ionization from the central star. The southeast limb is very bright and I had to employ some HDR tactics not to blow it out as the expanding gasses are colliding with the interstellar medium exciting OIII in that region. There is also a faint whisp of hydrogen extending down to the east of the planetary nebula that I do not believe is associated with it at all.Beyond the main object in the frame the rest is very devoid of much in the catalogs. There are no quasars at all and only 2 other visible galaxies in the Simbad catalog. There are a number of tiny non-stellar pointlike sources in the starless image that do show up in the Vizier and NED catalogs as various 2MASS objects.Link to Astrobin: https://astrob.in/gzuwy2/0/Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
Cosmic Clarity: Ready for Prime Time Seti Astro 2024-09-27 | We would love to have you as part of our community:youtube.com/channel/UCHeW7wuxfjhMmymXC9KqIbg/joinAll download details here: setiastro.com/cosmic-clarityProduction version of Cosmic Clarity is out! AI model built up from over 11,000 stellar images and 7,000 nonstellar images, all of which blurred over 4 different levels of blurring to train the neural net. This can be ran standalone (no PixInsight needed) or via the script within PI! I plan to continue training the AI models to get better and better as well!Looking for astronomy gear?Use my links to Agena Astro or High Point Scientific and support the channel!agenaastro.com/?rfsn=8135169.ac4de7highpointscientific.com/?rfsn=8137176.78720d
