PixInsight Workflows
Links referenced in the book:
Repository Entries
Copy the repository address to add it to Pixinsight. The Website address for each entry is for further information.
RESOURCES=>Updates=>Manage repositories from the top menu, which brings you to a window where you can add each repository. Add them all one after another, at the same window. Once you have added them all, click “OK” and then:
RESOURCES=>Updates=>Check for Updates. Pixinsight will download the updates. You must then exit Pixinsight, and it will install them all.
Starnet2: Starting from PI version 1.9.0 Lockhart, StarNet has a PI repository. The website also provides notes on installing Tensorflow (TF) libraries, which you should read.
- Website: https://www.starnetastro.com/download/
- Repository address: https://pixinsight.starnetastro.com/
- Repository address for TensorFlow libraries : https://pixinsight.starnetastro.com/tensorflow/
Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch(GHS): GHS must now be installed by adding a repository entry:
- Website: https://ghsastro.co.uk/
- Repository address: https://www.ghsastro.co.uk/updates/
ImageBlend: This is used to blend together two images with a number of controls.
- Website: https://cosmicphotons.com/scripts/ along with a number of others.
- Repository address: https://www.cosmicphotons.com/pi-scripts/imageblend/
NarrowbandNormalization (also Cosmic Photons)
- Repository address: https://www.cosmicphotons.com/pi-modules/narrowbandnormalization/
SetiAstro : For Blemish blaster and a whole list of other plugins listed on the website. When you update the repository, you will get all the SetAstro Scripts, which will have their own category. SCRIPTS=> SetiAstro
- Website: https://www.setiastro.com/pjsr-scripts
- Repository: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/setiastro/pixinsight-updates/main/
Pixinsight Toolbox : The Plugins are a set of useful utilities, including those used to create OSC palettes
- Website: https://www.ideviceapps.de/pixinsight-toolbox.html.
- Repository: https://www.ideviceapps.de/PixInsight/Utilities/
Foraxx palette utility for creating alternative palettes
- Website: https://foraxxpaletteutility.com/
- Repository: https://foraxxpaletteutility.com/FPU/
Game Mask: And a whole lot more. See the website
- Website: https://www.skypixels.at/pixinsight_scripts.html
- Repository: https://www.skypixels.at/HVB_Repository/
Downloads:
GraXpert: pre-release version 3.1.0rc2 Gradient correction, noise reduction, and deconvolution (stand-alone version).
- Download version 3.10rc2: https://github.com/Steffenhir/GraXpert/releases and install (Recommended as it includes Deconvolution)
- There is an older Current Stable Version without Deconvolution that can be run from Pixinsight, but it is not recommended
Linked and Unlinked Stretch with Curve Adjustment by Bill Blanshan. Download and save as Process Icon
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em9IQzbkBuU
- Download address: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZuE8VKlrryofFAGdx-hIH8drrdNZxVCN
- Download these files and put them in a “Process Icons” folder you create.
The Xterminators:
BlurXTerminator; for Deconvolution; NoiseXTerminator for noise reduction and StarXTerminator for star separation. All paid for Plugins
- Website: https://www.rc-astro.com/ for full details.