In this video I show you how to easily process your One shot color (OSC) camera astro M51 Whirlpool Galaxy data in Pixinsight (as a beginner).

I used a planetary Camera!

0:00 Intro
0:49 Imaging Setup
1:05 Stacking in Pixinsight & STF, Processing Icons
7:00 Stacking in Pixinsight vs. Deep Sky Stacker
8:16 Croping
9:05 Dynamic Background Extraction (DBE)
13:51 DBE - Before vs. After
14:22 Color Work - SCNR
15:13 Star & Target Definition - BlurXterminator (BX)
16:00 Spectrophotometric Color Calibration (SPCC) & Plate Solving
19:15 Image Pre-Stretch
22:07 Star & Target Definition - BlurXterminator (Preparation for SN2)
22:20 Target (M51) and Star Separation (StarNet 2)
25:00 M51 Stretch (Histogram Transformation)
25:41 M51 - Color Work (I) & Further Stretching
35:06 Noise Reduction (NoiseXterminator & TGV Denoise)
36:58 M51 - Color Work (II) & Definition (BlurXterminator) & Denoise
43:39 Stars - Image Stretching
45:05 Stars - Color Saturation & SCNR
46:07 M51 - Stretching (Background & Dust Structures)
49:48 M51 - Sharpening (Unsharp Mask) & BX
51:01 Recombination of M51 & Stars
52:15 Save Image (XISF & TIFF)
52:36 Comparing Before & After Image Processing
55:03 Outlook Next Video (add Ha to your M51 Image)


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