FastTrack Training
$120.00 5 Sections 33 Lessons
Course Description
FastTrack Training is a course for anyone starting out with PixInsight and wants an easy-to-follow, repeatable workflow that results in a finished image. No background knowledge required. FastTrack is straightforward, fast, and explains the steps that you will always do when creating your images in PixInsight. It's streamlined enough that you can go from the raw files to a completed image in a single sitting. FastTrack comes complete with 10 hours of high quality video tutorials and sample data downloads for both OSC and Monochrome demonstrations.
Course Content
Getting Started
These sections will have you setup PixInsight for this course and start looking at the user interface and the data.
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Download the FastTrack Training OSC Images
The DATA (The Flaming Star Nebula)... Courtesy of Anthony Quintile
Download GAIA and GAIA/SP
Open ONE Image in PixInsight
Discussion: Examine the Images, see the Interface
Examine MANY Images
Did you see what I see?
Debayer, Discover the Pattern
Color me Correctly
WBPP and the Calibrate Only Method
Use Regular CC for This Data
WBPP: Calibrate Only
What are my files? Where are my files?
Align the Images
Are your stars aligned?
Local Normalization
Combine the Images (Image Integration)
CFA Drizzle Integration
Do the Astrometry
Does it measure up?
Standard Post Processing
Gradient Correction Methods
MultiScale Gradient Correction
DBE Gradient Removal
SPCC Color Calibration
BlurXTerminator
StarXTerminator and NoiseXTerminator
Final Wrap Up
Full WBPP Processing Demo
Full WBPP Processing Demonstration
Monochrome (RGB) Example
Full WBPP Configuration
RGB Combination and Gradient Correction
BlurXTerminator and StarXTerminator
Nebula Processing
Putting it Together