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/p...

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