BlurXterminator just got EVEN BETTER! - Ai4 upgrade! 

Huge thanks to all Members and Patrons! Thank you ALL for your support!! Dave Burley Steven Holt Aianne Paul Wood Cosmuzz Astro Scott Davies Two Stones Observatory Dom Heavenly Backyard Astronomy Fourier2000 Ciaran Jordan Stephen Watson Simon's Astro Pete Carpenter Steve Rusti Claus Tuxen Spaztech Emilford David Knight Charmaine Peck Blood's Thicker Ron Cisco TelfordO J J Riff Raff Steve Noden Dr. Joe Luciani AstroDork Peter Heath Stephen.and.the.huskies Trinigun Bankashi Mick Whitaker Seven Skies Astro Your Favorie Astro Nerd John and Dawn John Fathers Paul Smaglik Peter Schmitz Ben Mikolajczyk Antonio Flores Andy Nowlen Christian Proulx R. Einstein Russ McKinney Dan Boulton Tom Utendorf Paul Grabowski EASY ASTRO IMAGES Mashpotato Mountain Observatory Andrew Bennett Mads Fjord-Elsvaag Ian Moore Rigobert Van der Mercken Chris Digata Alan Hancox Keith Dutton Karel Odink Geoff Watt SCGY Michael Rushton Mike Rooke James Baguley Biglee87 AstroKade Astronomy Hobbesfif Pete's Astrophotography Mazzif Astro Deep Space Astro Joakim's Astrophotography EdHoltAstro Lee Ballage87 Edward Bornman Richard Harvey Wayne Steel Linux Astro AstroWorldTelescopes Justin Time Nico Carver Barry Williams Edward Bornman Arve Svenning Brian Davis Mike Harden Neikof Miguel Iza Don Carter John Silver Rudy Amaya Chasing Ghosts Photography Chris Digata Stu Parker McErono Craig Wolford Walter Haase Robert Pitt Allerley David Huff Graham White Ron Bernstein WordOrigins.org Wheeljack Tomtoe Douglas Schmitt Robert Martin Gary Maker Dave Mayhew Clay Kesterson Ken Faust Janet Tulloch Oldskool Raver Stephen Lyon Jörg T Russell Simon Laverick Bruce Cahill Jack Bernstein Njoobie Klaus Barth John Gwyther mrkutube Douglas Cooper blameTECHIE I0nemonk100 Eton Shu Sherwin Cashie John Adastra Timo Jarvilehto Falk T Joshua Müller George Rick Kuchan Mark Wilson Northern Kentucky Stargazers Samuel Turner Sam Turner Jay Hull David Aucoin Mark Wilson Stefan David Rousseau

Wow! Folks like Russell are geniuses! I struggle to understand a lot of the technical stuff, but these tools make such complicated tasks plug and play! Bravo! Dr B from Manitoba, Canada 🇨🇦

As soon as I saw it on my FB feed I updated and played with it. Perfect timing!! Thanks

It's pretty insane what sort of tools are available to the amateur community these days. I remember looking at images on the Sky at night in the '70's as a kid, and thinking they were the mutts nuts and that NASA etc were wizards. Yet now, we mere mortals can achieve so much with relatively inexpensive equipment from our back gardens. It truly does blow your mind. Well, it would if the chuffin clouds buggered off! Clear skies Luke

Many thanks for the headsup. Have tried it & it's fantastic !

Happy to help mate!

Just wow. My latest project of flaming tadpoles is suffering from poor calibration bottom left. Can't wait to see if it saves it

Looks like another great update

I just can't believed the improvement! Russ has really outdone himself this time. I couldn't even use AI V2 on my last image because it destroyed the starfield and made everything double stars! But I just used AI V4 on it and now it's perfect! I was actually considering getting an AO to fix my funky stars from guide errors but now I can put my wallet back in my pocket 🙂 Thanks for the video Luke! Exciting stuff!

Wow... an early present, look forward to having a play with the AI4 🌃 Oh Happy Haircut... Burrrrrrr.. chilly

its amazing how good it is.

Hi Luke, I've had a good look at this earlier and it's truly unbelievable. I thought the original blur xterminator was excellent but the latest is something else ! The only thing I didn't realise was if you had the previous blurx saved as an icon on your workspace you need to delete it and create a new one otherwise every time it will ask you to choose / select ai 4. I checked the psf value on the new version and its incredible ! I reckon there's half the astro community going over old data tonight fixing up elongated stars !

Hey Luke, cool Video. I already loved AI2 but AI4 ist crazy amazing 🤯

It's insane how good the new version of BXT is. I haven't managed to try it myself yet but I've been hugely impressed with the results other people are getting. Funny you should mention globular clusters, I'll definitely be reprocessing my M13 image with it to see what it can do.

The stars themselves are the point spread functions as we know real stars are point sources. Previous version appears to take all the stars and average them to produce and average PSF used to deconvolve the entire image. I was hoping for a dynamic spatially variable PSF, which would adapt the PSF for the local patches in the image. Obviously that would help to handle aberrations such as coma and astigmatism which worsen as we get further out.❤🎉

Luke strikes again! Fast video, thanks man!! No Heilung tho hahahahaha

Luke, love BlurXterminator. BUT for me a lot of the “fun” of astrophotography is in developing my skills in tuning my scope to get the best images. For example sensor tilt and back focus. I do worry that tools like this are removing the need for that “skill”. Like I say I’m conflicted on this because I too love these tools.

for fuck snakes russel croman, i’m already broke as it is! this just sealed the deal for me, i’m going to build a computer solely so that i can purchase pixinsight and these tools, i think that cost will improve my images way more than if i were to spend it on a better camera. cheers but also curse you luke, clear skies :)

That looks bloody awesome mate still need a better PC before I dip my toes though sadly Clear skies

I’ll be interested how this affects your workflow using Bill Blanshan’s Narrow band Normalization tool - BXT v2 wants to be run linear, after linear colour combination; Bill likes to colour combine after stretching (IIRC). So: BXT Correct Stars only on linear SHO integrations, then linear colour combine, then BXT again, the unlinked (?) pixel math stretch, then Narrowband Normalization?

Nice video. This is a really cool plugin. Is there a free alternative to blurxterminator?

Makes me think I could sell my edgeHD. Go back to using the Mak180 and BXT 🤔

I really enjoy your presenting style. Videos are always helpful and well explained. I already had BXT but for some reason I can't get AI4 to work - error message that starts "** Error: ERROR: MLLoad() could not load tensorflow graph. Error 3: Converting GraphDef to Graph has failed" Don't know if you can help with that??

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