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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 been embraced by professionals such as the James Webb (and Hubble) Space Telescope's science imager Joseph DePasquale and Calar Alto's Vicent Peris, as well as thousands of amateurs around the world.

While PixInsight is extremely powerful, very little has been printed on the subject. The first edition of this book broke that mold, offering a comprehensive look into the software’s capabilities. This second edition expands on the several new processes added to the PixInsight platform since that time, detailing and demonstrating each one with a now-expanded workflow. Addressing topics such as PhotometricColorCalibration, Large-Scale Pixel Rejection, LocalNormalization and a host of other functions, this text remains the authoritative guide to PixInsight.

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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 been embraced by professionals such as the James Webb (and Hubble) Space Telescope's science imager Joseph DePasquale and Calar Alto's Vicent Peris, as well as thousands of amateurs around the world.

While PixInsight is extremely powerful, very little has been printed on the subject. The first edition of this book broke that mold, offering a comprehensive look into the software’s capabilities. This second edition expands on the several new processes added to the PixInsight platform since that time, detailing and demonstrating each one with a now-expanded workflow. Addressing topics such as PhotometricColorCalibration, Large-Scale Pixel Rejection, LocalNormalization and a host of other functions, this text remains the authoritative guide to PixInsight.

About the Author

Warren A. Keller is a world-renowned astro-imager (APOD, Sky & Telescope, Astronomy magazines, etc.) and teacher of image processing. He has presented at the Northeast, Midwest, and Advanced Imaging Conferences and has written extensively on the subject. He is a six-time Sky & Telescope author. Keller produced the definitive commercial video tutorial series for PixInsight and published the first edition of Inside PixInsight with Springer in 2016.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 2nd ed. 2018 edition (3 Jan. 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 452 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319976885
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319976884
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.49 x 2.62 x 23.5 cm

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Comprehensive guide to a complex astroimaging processing program

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Thorough coverage of this complex program which I am still learning.
I tend to use onlinje resources for simple explanations, and this book as more of a reference.

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KEG

Very useful reference book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 July 2021

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Very useful reference if you already have a reasonably good understanding of data processsing, but I'd imagine it's not so good for anyone that is just starting out. Needs updating for the new weighted average batch pre processing script.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 October 2019

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Essential to anyone using pixinsight. Watch any online tutorials then use this book to understand what you have been watching. My copies are always with me when using PixInsight.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 February 2020

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Fast delivery, undamaged book. Thank you!

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Alltrades1967

Buy Mastering Pixinsight by RBA. Better than this 'junk'.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 April 2020

Update Two: Thought I'd add it at the top: Decided to download an electronic copy of Mastering PixInsight by RBA. It's two books actually, and I am so glad I did. It is so much better than this book. Approachable. Logical and the tech BS kept simple. Highly recommend it for beginners and experienced users.

Original text: Sadly, for me the first 80 pages on pre-processing I could only describe what I read as a convoluted mess on trying to explain the process of just getting to stack an image. Sadly, PI, does not cater for things like Flat Darks and is, at best mediocre, at creating a stacked image. These are a lot of things you need to get right in preparation and a lot of hoop jumping. If you are lucky you will end up with something you can work with. There is free software (DeepSpaceStacker - DSS) that does a much better job; that is less fussy and less complicated at getting the result you need. You wouldn't need to write 80 pages with DSS, which essentially, gives you just as good a result. My advice, skip the first 80 pages of this book and use DSS for your pre-processing. Post processing, then this book will give you everything you need to get you the results you desire from using PI and create a final image of your hard labor. I, personally, use PI to get as close a final image I want, then switch to Photoshop to polish it up. Sadly, this book, for me isn't very user friendly for beginners. Plenty of YouTube videos out there to get you started. This is only good for reference if you want to get the best out of your images, but be warned... it is very much written in the same style echoing the pompous arrogance the software it is referring too. It assume the reader holds a PhD in Astrophysics, just like the software does to its users. Sadly, we all do not. We just enjoy this hobby we call Astrophotography. If you can get over the fancy jargon in this book you'll be fine, just like you will be fine with the software once you've watched some videos. This book is not for beginners.

Update One: Dropped to 2 stars after really struggling to read this man's rambling comments. Think he'd make better videos that write books. This book is so disjointed and illogically put together in step processing. Going to sell my copy as totally junk for 90% of reading.

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Could be so much better

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2020

A sure-fire way to business success is to take something that already exists and to make it either cheaper, faster or better. In project management, this maps to Cost, Time and Quality (I'll come back to this later).
Anyways, you do need this book to use PI, but it's let down by the poor layout. It has not been written by someone with good training skills.
Yes, it's laid out in a process format, but many of the steps jump around and even though the 'what to do' is in there somewhere, they’re quite often hidden in other details.
I've worked in education and training complex systems for many years and if I was to write a manual for something as big as this I'd start the book with workflows (OSC, LRGB, SHO). Then for each workflow, lay out the individual processes. Then, for each process have an 'in a nutshell' section saying what the process/script does. Have an optional to read tech section where the tech is explained and then the numbered steps of actually performing the function.
It would also be good to provide a link to sample images you can work with whilst going through the book.
Don't get me wrong, the info is in there, but it's a frustrating read sometimes.
As my opening described, this is the only dedicated book on PI (in English?) and if someone was to re-write it, or create their own, it would be a success.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2019

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I bought the First Edition in 2016 and that was a great book. This Second Edition is more than just a correction of the errata. It has large parts rewritten and reorganised with new information and new tools and techniques.
If you've shelled out 200 odd quid to buy PixInsight, and thousands on AP gear, it is madness not to get this book. Also, the author is an extremely well respected and very approachable member of the PI community and responds to help requests on the forum.
A great resource.

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