QuickStart

$50.00 3 Sections 28 Lessons

Course Description

This course completes the foundation laid by FastTrack Training, focusing on essential PixInsight navigation, configuration, and behaviors. Learn how the software works so it works for you—not against you. 

Course Content

Interface and Data Representation

These sections highlight some of the basic elements of PixInsight's interface.
Recommended Path to View Lessons
How To Install PixInsight
Installing Scripts from Repositories
View and Interface Controls
Processes, Instances and Real Time Display
Maximized Views
Previews
Normalized Data Representation
Readout Preview
Readout Mode
Templates and Icons 1
Templates and Icons 2
History Explorer
File Explorer
All about Projects and Files
Second Instance of PixInsight

More Must Know Items

In addition to PixInsight's interface lessons above, the lessons here are all fundamental concepts about how to interact with images, their histories as well as common task such as plate solving and narrowband calibration pedestals.
Plate Scale
File Names and Things
ImageSolver, Plate Scale and Aladin Sky Atlas
Astronomical Image Calibration
Image Container
Process Containers and History States
Image Containers with Process Containers
Using a Pedestal for NB Images
Installing a Script without a Repository

Cosmetic Correction

No quick-start collection of videos would be complete without covering the important cosmetic correct process in all of its forms (old and new).
New CC method in WBPP
Usage of Cosmetic Correction (3 Methods and Defect Map)
A Story about Hot Pixels