Warren Keller and Ron Brecher are starting the 5th orbit of their popular online workshop series designed to make YOU a Master of PixInsight! These information-packed monthly workshops cover all aspects of deep-sky image processing, with the goal of helping students learn about the most important tools and settings needed to create jaw-dropping astrophotos.  Working directly with Warren and Ron, and practicing with the data and resources provided, you’ll move confidently from beginner to experienced user in no time.

Workshop 1:  PIXINSIGHT FOR NEWBIES

After a night of catching photons, you can hardly wait to see and share the cosmic beauty of your photographs! While many options for deep-sky image processing software exist, none can match PixInsight for its versatility. As a very powerful program, the learning curve can seem daunting to the new user, but we’ll show you that it’s not! In this workshop, we’ll take the mystery out of the PixInsight user interface, and show you a compact workflow using one-shot color data. We’ll cover:

• The PixInsight user interface

• Evaluating the quality of individual subframes

• Quick of WBPP (covered in “WBPP Deep Dive”)

• A compact OSC workflow

• Saving a project for future use

• Sharing your image as a .JPG

Future Virtual Workshops will expand on this basic workflow and delve more deeply into specialized topics. 

WHAT YOU’LL GET

Attendees of this workshop will receive the following: 

• All of the data and project files used in the workshop

• Process icon sets to use on their own data

• Unlimited access to a recording of the workshop

• An opportunity to win a door prize from our generous sponsors