I'll walk you through the most powerful software in astrophotography, PixInsight! Join me as we work on the Orion Nebula showing off the impressive features of this program. Please like this video and join our growing community of amateur astronomers by subscribing to this channel. Let me know what you like about PixInsight and any other software you enjoy using for astrophotography in the comment section below.

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Special thanks to Bert in my local astronomy club for introducing me to PixInsight and helping to explain some of its features!

Music: "Large Smile Mood" by Nico Staf

“The heavens declare the glory of God”-Psalm 19:1

0:00 - Intro, Photoshop vs PixInsight
2:32 - Loading Image & STF Auto Stretch
4:52 - Dynamic Crop
7:08 - Dynamic Background Extraction
17:03 - Photometric Color Calibration
20:54 - Histogram Transformation (Stretching)
24:34 - ACDNR (Noise Reduction)
29:37 - HDR Multiscale Transform
32:56 - SCNR
33:53 - Curves Transformation
37:24 - Mask Range Selection
40:45 - Unsharp Mask
45:40 - Histogram Transformation
48:35 - Save TIFF & JPEG
50:24 - Final Results of The Orion Nebula

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