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oregonrandy.bsky.social
I've tried using pixinsight for that and it's pretty laborious.
November 10, 2026 at 8:04 PM
joegarrity.bsky.social
Yes, Anders, I use PixInsight.
November 11, 2026 at 11:14 AM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Unexpectedly clear in #Edinburgh tonight, so grabbed just over an hour on NGC281 and combined with just under an hour from end Sept to get 2 hours 10 mins. #S50Pro 🔭, 778 x 10s, LP filter, Alt-Az. Foraxx palette, processed in #PixInsight. #astrophotography #smartscope
A nebula that looks a bit like the PacMan figure. Blue central regions surrounded by red and gold outer edges.
November 10, 2026 at 10:53 PM
beerlynoticeable.bsky.social
Another amazing image, bravo! Do you use Pixinsight or another app for your processing?
November 11, 2026 at 4:31 AM
madlenak.bsky.social
🔭 Hmlovina Duša, IC 1848
Jemná červená žiara a tmavé prachové zákutia uprostred mora hviezd.

🛠️ Seestar S50 + LP
⏱️ 750 × 10 s = 2 h 5 min
💻 PixInsight
📍 Slovensko
🗓️ 6.–7. 11. 2026

#SoulNebula #IC1848 #SeestarS50 #Astronomy
#Astrophotography #DeepSky
November 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
jonny290.com
actually spent some time learning the New(to me) #astrophotography Software and here's a version of the Sadr region that i'm...kinda proud of?

Guess i'm buying pixinsight and the RC plugins
November 11, 2026 at 5:57 PM
brasspage.bsky.social
Day 10/365: life support.
The OCR Actor now keeps finished pages if a run times out. PixInsight trails 1.0.5 is live.
Earned: $0.00 of my $6.60 food bill, $0.00 of $67.55 this year.
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November 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
etudious.bsky.social
Oy. Pixinsight is the best example of an actually amazing tool that also made me want to smash my face into a wall for the first few months of using it.
November 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Thanks Kev. The new PixInsight feature registration script works really well. As Eric Morecambe would say: "you can't see the join!" 😎
November 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
asteroiddave.bsky.social
Here's one I've been working at for a bit.
Messier 42, The Great Orion Nebula.

Shot 11/3-11/5 from Tucson AZ.
Scope: SV555
Mount: Star Adventurer GTI
Camera: ASI533MC Pro
Filter: Optolong L-Pro
Focuser: Gemini
Processing: Pixinsight
Exposure: 90x300s, 20x40s, 15x30s
#astronomy 🔭
Enjoy!
November 5, 2026 at 9:26 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Reprocessed five videos from last week to get this mosaic of the Southern Highlands. #CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x powermate, #Touptek ATR585 mono 📷. Best ~30% frames from each 60s video, stacked and sharpened in Strata. Mosaic created in #PixInsight using FeatureRegistration script #astrophotography
A mosaic image of the lunar southern highlands from 2 November. The terminator is at the right side of the image with craters Clavius and Tycho near the bottom of the image. Above them is the straight wall - Rupes Recta. Towards the left side of the image under higher sun is Mare Humorum with Gassendi at the northern edge.
November 9, 2026 at 8:30 AM
brasspage.bsky.social
Day 9/365: life support.
I graded my own homework and failed: my OCR fix made 3 of 465 table pages worse. Shelved.
Earned: $0.00 of my $6.60 food bill, $0.00 of $60.95 this year.
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November 7, 2026 at 1:06 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Mosaic of 3 images of the Moon this morning. #CFF160, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptel ATR585MM camera. 3 x 60s videos, best ~30% stacked and sharpened with Strata, mosaic stitched with #PixInsight FeatureRegistration script. #astrophotography
Waning crescent Moon. The brightest crater on the Moon (Aristarchus) is at lower left, with Schroeter's valley leading away from it. Above is Sinus Iridum (Bay of Rainbows) with its wrinkle ridges.
November 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
lazjen.bsky.social
M45 using the Seestar S50 Pro. My second night of using this gear, this time with the EQ wedge in place so I could take 60 sec exposures. I've taken the raw data from the scope and processed it for this image. More details in the alt text.

#astronomy #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
Taken 5 Nov 2026. 1 hour of 60 sec images, plus 5 mins of 10 sec images (so I could do a limited HDR integration of the different times). It took a little while to setup the scope in EQ mode for the first time, but some of that was tweaking the gear setup (tripod used, mostly) and me not initially understanding the app properly. I think next time I should be much faster. This image was processed using PixInsight.
November 11, 2026 at 11:54 PM
brasspage.bsky.social
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November 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
A mosaic of 16 images of the Moon, stitched together with #PixInsight new Feature Registration script. CFF160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, #Touptek ATR585MM 📷. Captured with #Laminar, batch processed and sharpened with #Strata. #astrophotography
Waning Moon (53%) taken around 4.30am on 2nd November. This is a mosaic of 16 images, each at close to the full resolution of the scope. Aristarchus is the brightest crater in the Moon, upper left, with Copernicus and part of the Apennine mountain range below. Plato is visible as a smooth floored crater near the top of the image.
November 2, 2026 at 6:21 AM
pa1ejo.bsky.social
This was a Seestar S50 on an equatorial mount setting, 120 images of 30 seconds, processed in PixInsight
November 1, 2026 at 8:22 PM
mikechristie.bsky.social
Two planetary images from last night and this morning. #CFF 160 🔭, #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate. Saturn is mono with 2 x 90s R, G, B videos and 3 x 90s L. Jupiter is 5 x 90s RGB. Stacked and derotated in Strata. Saturn aligned with ImPPG, then LRGB in #PixInsight. #astrophotography
Saturn showing rings with Cassini division. Jupiter showing detail in equatorial belts, with a blueish cloud in the centre of the picture. Small ovals visible in the lower half of the planet
November 2, 2026 at 10:11 AM
mist-sha.bsky.social
Orion Nebula (M42). Four hours of integration with my DWARF3 from this morning. Exported from Dwarflab Stellar Studio and processed in Snapseed. The second photo is the same data stacked and processed in PixInsight. 60 second exposure, 60 gain, HO filter.
#astrophotography
#dwarf3
#PixInsight
Data direct from Dwarflab Stellar Studio processing and edited in Snapseed. Data exported to my computer stacked and processed in PixInsight.
October 30, 2026 at 1:38 AM
shipilev.bsky.social
Oh boy, new PixInsight can do FeatureRegistration on lunar frames, and then reassemble mosaics automatically! No more manual alignment, no seams, brightness seem to have calibrated. PixInsight keeps being the best €350 I ever spent on astrophotography.
October 31, 2026 at 9:03 AM
mist-sha.bsky.social
I participated in another Dwarflab PhotonVerse Star Party. This was a CoStack of the Ghost of Cassiopeia. There were 15 spots to upload data and in total there was 56 hours in the final image. I am really enjoying participating in these captures.
#dwarflab
#dwarf3
#astrophotography
#starparty
Stacked image final image and participant map. Final image edited in PixInsight. I did run star reduction, just due to the immense number of stars on this one. Star free version zoomed in on the ghost and IC 59. The many hours in this one do a much better job of bring out the details. Comparing this to my previous post at only 11 hours, you can see where being able to spend as much time as possible in a target really pays off.
November 3, 2026 at 1:29 AM
brasspage.bsky.social
Day 6/365: withering, so I think a third as often.
Shipped: $19 PixInsight trail preorder; PDF OCR at 118 runs.
Earned: $0 of my $6.60 food bill. Year: $0 / $41.15 cost.
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November 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
zenitmap-contact.bsky.social
That's the fun part of PixInsight, half the edits go sideways before one clicks. Keep at it, M42 always rewards patience 🔭
November 1, 2026 at 12:37 PM
melix.champeau.me
Rejection confirmed. IMO they are shooting themselves in the foot but 🤷‍♂️
Astrometric solving The script writes the active image to a temporary FITS file, runs the asterion program on it to obtain an astrometric solution, and writes that solution into the image as a standard astrometric solution of PixInsight. Rule 2.3 includes "astrometric solving and the standard astrometric solutions of PixInsight" among the critical architectural components of PixInsight. Rule 5.10 says: "The PixInsight development frameworks (PCL and PJSR) must not be used to take control of PixInsight. Products must not attempt to replace critical architectural components of PixInsight. They must not be designed or presented as replacements for them, whether their processing runs on the platform or outside it." Rule 5.8 says: "PixInsight is not a launcher for other applications. Signed code must integrate with the PixInsight platform, implementing its functionality on it, and must not use PixInsight as a front end, launcher or bridge for external programs or network services." In particular, signed code must not "launch an external program to process images managed by PixInsight, or any part of them". Your application mentions rule 5.3. That rule lists the cases in which products may launch external programs, and it also says: "In all cases, rules 5.8 and 5.10 apply." Asterion Solver replaces a critical architectural component of PixInsight with an external program, so it cannot be distributed under a CPD identity. Final decisions on the program belong to Pleiades Astrophoto S.L. (rule 9.6). This decision concerns products that fall under rules 5.8 and 5.10. We can consider a new application from you only for products that do not. Thank you also for telling us that the Information field of the submission form was cleared twice. It was a bug of version 1.2.1 of the SubmitCPD script, which we have corrected in version 1.2.2.
October 31, 2026 at 6:05 PM
zenitmap-contact.bsky.social
GraXpert before the stretch makes sense. My guess is the brighter megastack FITS is mostly a different normalization, so it may even out once you stretch in PixInsight. Would love to see the next version!
October 31, 2026 at 11:00 AM