Basic Galaxy Processing Workflow in Pixinsight from Start to Finish

Visit my blog post to download the raw data for practice: https://www.ancientphotonsastro.com/post/galaxy-processing-bootcamp-a-basic-workflow-for-osc-galaxy-processing-in-pixinsight This video is intended for a beginner with some knowledge of Pixinsight. My goal was to present a basic workflow for completing the processing of a galaxy using Pixinsight. I use a couple of Pixinsight addons for this demonstration: BlurXterminator and NoiseXterminator. I highly recommend these processes. They save a lot of time, and do an excellent job. If you don't have these, you can simply insert your own deconvolution and noise reduction methods in their place. I acquired this data (about 5 hours integration) from my old bortle 8/9 backyard outside of Washington, DC using a Celestron Edge HD 8 with 0.7x reducer and a ZWO ASI533 MC OSC camera. Additionally, I didn't have the correct backspacing dialed in for the reducer which led to CA and elongated stars in the corners. That said, it's not great data - but it's fine to practice with. Perhaps you can produce something nice with it. Enjoy! 0:00 Intro 1:20 Cropping out stacking artifacts 2:08 Dynamic Background Extraction 4:24 Image Solver (adding coordinates to image) 5:47 Spectrophotometric Color Calibration (SPCC) 6:40 Deconvolution (BlurXterminator) 10:38 Noise reduction (NoiseXterminator) 13:20 Stretching the image 14:20 Mask Generation and Curves adjustment 19:14 Local Histogram Transformation 20:47 Sharpening (Unsharp Mask) 24:09 Selective Color Saturation 25:47 Final Curves adjustment 27:10 Star Saturation 29:33 Outro