Inside PixInsight
PixInsight has taken the astro-imaging world by storm. As the first comprehensive postprocessing platform to be created by astro-imagers for astro-imagers, it has for many replaced other generic graphics editors as the software of choice. PixInsight has b
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Inside PixInsight Second Edition
The Patrick Moore
The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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Inside PixInsight
Warren A. Keller Second Edition
Warren A. Keller Buckhannon, WV, USA
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This book is dedicated to my late mother Roslyn Pearl Schiff with all my love. She would have been so very proud! She was my greatest supporter, a world-class musician and teacher, and the greatest friend that those who knew her ever had. She was equally fluent in the languages of love and Debussy, and awaited my latest astro-image with genuine eagerness and appreciation. We miss you Mom!
Preface
If the astrophotography community presented an Academy Award for outstanding software tools, Pleiades Astrophoto’s PixInsight (PI) would have earned that trophy. In an already crowded field of capable image-processing programs, PI has risen above the competition, taking it by storm. In addition to its state-of-the-art preprocessing capabilities, PI is also a post-processing platform rivaling Adobe® Photoshop®, once the de facto standard for astrophotographers. Now, with PI, astro-imagers, both amateur and professional, can take their images from raw data to finished fine art photographs using a single program. PI is the brainchil
