PixInsight free trial arrived ! (Ewam)

PixInsight free trial arrived !

First jump into the huge platform : I took another set of M42 frames. Made the "mistake" to put more O-III filtered frames, resulting in an excess shade of blue, that so far I didn't manage to balance. But, hey, it does bring more subtle details. The 16.35 mag star is now loud and clear... with only 7 frames @6400iso.

Bare with me : I chose to share the ups and down of this learning process : many uninteresting images are published, I'm afraid. But as I enjoyed this extensive browsing, I figure a little number of you guys and girls out there may appreciate...

ERRATUM : the marker top left point @ a 16.35 star is misplaced, this one is a bit brighter, @ 15.90. Will correct this in next version :-)

B VERSION : NOT PI. For comparison's sake, this is the same master stacking, here processed with Nebulosity 3.2 and iPhoto only. Color balance is better (I know pretty much how to use it) but you see details are blurred into background brownish noise. Denoise efficiency : 1 / 0 for PI ;-)

C VERSION : a screen capture I took of my workspace on PI. Here are so many tools, layers to fiddle with, components, and what not. In the end it means more data in your frames than the eye could see at first !

Also, the first approach of this animal feels a bit daunting, so many new terms it pulls out at your face ; quite technical and hard to enter into, but a couple of hours of trying things out already gives a different feeling.

Original
B
Final
C

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

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