BlurXterminator for PixInsight - what you didn't know?

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In this video I interview Russell Croman the developer of BlurXterminator (and NoiseXterminator as well as StarXterminator). We take a deep dive into what BlurXterminator is, how it works, is it fake and how best to incorporate it into your PixInsight workflow.
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@VisibledarkAstro Год назад

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@LLA2008 Год назад

Hey Russ Here's a suggestion.... How about CloudXterminator!

@dadwhitsett Год назад

Haha. I will pay for that (cheaper than a road trip I hope).

@lukomatico Год назад

Superb interview Shawn, respect to both you and Russell! Clear skies buddy :-)

@billblanshan3021 Год назад

Great job Shawn and Russ! I can't wait to see what Russ has in store for us next 😎

@VisibledarkAstro Год назад

Indeed! 😉

@jimwaters304 Год назад

Thanks Shawn for arranging the interview with Russ. I was very helpful, addressed some key concerns and explained how to best use the tool.

@johnshu5331 Год назад

Aloha Shawn and Russ, great interview and info on BXT. Yes, I took notes :) Fingers crossed that it will run on my pc! thanks

@mikeschi9551 Год назад

Great interview Shaun. Incredible application and great information Russ - I learned a ton!

@alandyer910 Год назад

Great interview! Very informative and well done.

@carolsantulis1990 Год назад

Thanks Shawn. Russel is such a great concise speaker. Very informative to hear these things directly from him.

@OlliesSpace Год назад

Thanks for this Shawn great conversation to listen to.

@alexbeck6414 Год назад

Shawn, this is awesome. Russ is crazy smart and your ability to take his detailed explanations and apply them to users like myself is wonderful. Keep doing what you’re doing, it is so appreciated. Clear skies.

@davidf9494 Год назад

Another excellent video Shawn! I've asked myself the same question regarding the order of BlurXterminator, NoiseXterminator, StarXterminator, etc. and that was answered, in detailed very well. The explanation of PSF and differences to sharpening was excellent and I will try your idea of a preview before doing PSF Imager to obtain a FWHM. Clear skies!

@Katieyhughes Год назад

Really enjoyed this video Shawn. I love and use all RC’s tools.

@ioan_astro Год назад

Russell is amazing:) his suite of tools is pretty incredible:). Great video Shaun :)

@tompeter5001 Год назад

Hey Shawn! Great informative interview with Russ I especially liked his differentiation of deconvolution vs sharpening.

@thewarhenk Год назад

Great interview, Shawn, and great responses by Russ!

@tomhoskins4913 Год назад

Thanks! Outstanding video. I am at this just over a year using PS exclusively. Thanks to your videos and blur exterminator I am going to move over to Pixinsight. I have all of RC s products on PS.

@VisibledarkAstro Год назад

Thanks for the support Tom. Much appreciated.

@patrickbisaillon307 Год назад

Very interesting that you two went through the options of the user interface, thank you for that.

@gregmckay666 Год назад

Awesome interview Shawn. Lots of BXT questions answered there. Thanks!

@mohammadnowroozi7940 Год назад

Russ is my very first inspiration when I was start astrophotography about 15 years ago.after a long time of no activity I am glad he started shooting deepsky again.

@krisn7819 Год назад

Thanks a lot Shawn, great as always! 👍

@gregerianne3880 Год назад

This was incredibly enlightening! Thanks so much, Shawn.

@TyroTim2000 Год назад

Awesome. Thank you. This answers most of my questions about BlurXterminator. Well done.

@aaronden Год назад

Thank you - quite valuable discussion around manually finding the optimal PSF 👍

@astrotimetraveller4622 Год назад

Great insights Shawn, thanks for doing, clear skies Ian

@AstroQuest1 Год назад

Good discussion, I had no idea what the difference was between Deconvolution and Sharpening was until now. Also to get the PSF value I am currently using a method described by Cuiv where you use the image analysis function. Cheers Kurt

@waynearnoldCanada Год назад

when you add your HA data to your RGB will this reverse any of the impact of BlurXT to the non stellar parts of the image that were just improved with BlurXT? If so, should you also run BlurXT to the non stellar parts of your HA data? I always remove the stars from HA and I don't use them when combining so stellar parts of image are not impacted. Great video and great questions Shawn, made if very easy to understand.

@VisibledarkAstro Год назад

Hey Wayne. You'll want apply BXT to both the RGB and Ha and then combine them. That will provide the best results.

@robb7342 Год назад

Thanks for putting this together Shawn.

@travelanddrones Год назад

Hi and thks for the video. I feel a bit frustrated after applying NXT on different linear astrophotos, I always get lots of extra noise and weird artifacts. I've tried using the default parameters and I've also tried different parameters, but the result is always the same. I mean, I see the stars on my images get pinpoint ones, and in some cases, some areas of my nebula photos get a bit better (more details and structure), but the noise is more than the original photo. I have only applied ABE or DBE to my images, with even no color correction, but I cannot get ridículo of that noise. Could you help me please? Any suggestions/ideas? Parameters to try? Thks in advance

@greglight5808 Год назад

Im not a pixinsight user but this was very interesting and informative thanks shawn

@TheMje1963 Год назад

Thanks Shawn, I'm always learning something new with your vid's

@LLA2008 Год назад

Hey Shawn When Russell stated that he used DynamicPSF for his FWHM values it got a little shall we say, convoluted... Could you possibly do a short video on how exactly DynamicPSF is used in conjunction with BXT? Thanks

@VisibledarkAstro Год назад

The easiest way to do it is make a preview center of image. Use PSFimage script and it will give you x and y FWHM values. Just take the average of two values and use that as your starting PSF. Will get you in the zone.

@LLA2008 Год назад

That's what I thought. Thanks for confirming...

@elithic Год назад

Fabulous job, Shawn! I learned a lot!

@escepg Год назад

Excellent video! Nice work in this. I learned a ton.

@omghamdiable Год назад

Thanks a lot Shawn, great interview, seems I’m gonna reprocess some of my images using this great tool.👍🏼

@patrickbisaillon307 Год назад

@VisibleDark, following instructions provided in this video, once I have selected say 7 stars to calculate the PSF diameter and got the average of the 7 stars FWHMx (2.24px) and FWHMy (2.18px), should I set the PSF diameter to the average of 2.24 and 2.18, i.e.: 2.21 ? Thanks in advance.

@MarcelBlattner Год назад

Very nice. Regarding the neural network training. Is there any information about the training data? It is one thing to talk about how you train the model but more importantly is how your training and test dataset is composed. Is there any infos about that?

@VisibledarkAstro Год назад

I can't answer this. Russ sometimes pops into the comments here maybe he can answer this if he sees it.

@DaveAstro Год назад

Hello Shawn, good discussion with Russel to better understand BlurXTerminator. During testing, I have measured a reduction of the star FWHM also when sharpen stellar is set to zero (2.05 in original image going to 1.78). Do you also have seen that effect on your images?

@VisibledarkAstro Год назад

Haven't seen this but will keep an eye out for it. Cheers.

@SkyShedPODTeam Год назад

Great stuff Shawn and Russ, thx!

@rodrigogutierrez2882 Год назад

I do not get good star reduction, halo management or even small trailing correction using a RASA. It seems the process only makes a HDR MST. With a refractor works well.

@andyhook1673 Год назад

Wow…. Just hats off to Russ

@jackbernstein3029 Год назад

Most important: order of operation!!!

@DamianVines Год назад

Great topic thank you. I have to say though, production wise, you really should turn off the autofocus feature on you camera... that constant focus hunting (focus breathing) of your image is really distracting. Great stuff though thank you :)

@VisibledarkAstro Год назад

Thanks. Ya I can't disable the autofocus unfortunately on the cam. I am looking at other options though.