Wednesday 27 June 2012

Family Gathering

Kyle, Sam, and Ella came up for the weekend, so we met them down at Currumbin beach for breakfast, spent the morning at the beach, and the rest of the day at Mum and Dad's place. Was a very enjoyable morning. Hayden and Ella got along famously.

swervin mervin Ella launch aaaaaaaahhh!!!

Sunday 10 June 2012

PixInsight Tutorial: BatchPreprocessing template script howto

I know of quite a few people who have bought the astrophotography image processing software PixInsight (PI), but only use it for one or two specific features, such as the gradient removal tools, or merging mosaics. The common reasons/excuses given for not using it for their full processing workflow seem to be "there isn't sufficient documentation", "I tried it, but calibrating and stacking images was so tedious, I just want to click a few buttons and have my images stacked", and "I don't want to have to learn a whole new platform."

So I thought I'd write a little tutorial that will hopefully help ease those concerns. I decided a good subject to achieve that would be a howto on using and writing a BatchPreprocessing (BPP) template script, with lots of screenshots to make it easier for those who don't like books without pictures.

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