Equalizing Color Part 2 (English)

DECONSTRUCTING A WORK OF ART As we’ve seen in the previous article, color in astrophotography can’t be used just any way we want. Even in narrowband, colors are assigned to specific chemical elements, such as red for Hydrogen, blue and green for Oxygen, orange for Sulfur, etc. Some people get more creative and mix percentages … Leer más

Equalizing Color Part 1.(English)

UNDERSTAND PIXINISIGHT STATISTICS AND HISTOGRAM AND HOW TO USE THEM. DILEMMA BETWEEN PROCESSING OR PAINTING. In this article, we’re going to talk about something fundamental in image processing: understanding the histogram and the statistics box. What do these graphs mean, and how can we use them to improve our images? We’ll focus on color equalization, … Leer más

Multiscale Gradient Correction (English)

How to Properly Use MGC to Fix Light Pollution in Your Photos In this article, I’ll walk you through how to use the new Multiscale Gradient Correction tool to clean up light pollution gradients in your images. The tool works by comparing your image against a massive, ever-growing astrophotometric database.Basically, it builds a background model … Leer más

Linear Workflow OSC (English)

My logical order of work and its logic. When we start to process a photo in PixInsight, the data are linear, that is, we have quantity but almost no intensity, so we see the photo black, or simply with four white dots corresponding to very bright stars. Processing data in LINEAR, means that we have … Leer más

GAIA & PixInsight (English)

How to correctly configure GAIA catalogs within PixInsigt. In this article, I explain how to configure it properly so it works within PixInsight. Gaia is a European space observatory designed to create a detailed 3D map of the Milky Way, helping scientists better understand the galaxy’s structure, formation, and evolution. In simple terms, Gaia is … Leer más

Customize camera/filter (English)

How to characterize a custom camera/filter combination on each channel, in order to calibrate the color properly. In the following article we will see how to customize our camera with the filter we have on for a given photo session, to correctly calibrate the color with the Spectrophotometric Color Calibration tool, hereafter SPCC, and also … Leer más

Personalizar cámara/filtro (castellano)

Como caracterizar una combinación personalizada de cámara/filtro en cada canal, para poder calibrar el color como es debido. En el siguiente artículo veremos la forma de personalizar nuestra cámara con el filtro que tengamos puesto en una sesión de fotos determinada, para calibrar correctamente el color con la herramienta Spectrophotometric Color Calibration, de ahora en … Leer más

Personalitzar càmera/filtre (valencià)

Com caracteritzar una combinació personalitzada de càmera/filtre en cada canal, per a poder calibrar el color com cal. En el següent article veurem la forma de personalitzar la nostra càmera amb elm filtre que tinguem posat en una sessió de fotos determinada, per tal de calibrar correctament el color amb l’eina Spectrophotometric Color Calibration, d’ara … Leer más