[Craig_]

Originally Posted by alpal

Sorry Guys - I wouldn't know,
I have only heard stories of PixInsight having a steep learning curve
requiring months of work to use properly.
There are 10 pages on it here:
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/6...ocessing-flow/


cheers
Allan

You can get the free 30 day trial for both PI and BlurX.


It's literally this easy (if you have a stacked file from other software):


1) Open linear stack
2) Process (top menu) > All processes > StarXterminator
3) Press Square (Apply) on the StarX process window
4) Wait
5) Once done, Process > All processes > BlurXterminator
6) Adjust settings to taste, some are irrelevant having removed the stars, all I change now is the sharpen non-stellar field I run at around 0.60 or so, which works well on linear, starless data.
7) Press square (apply) on BlurX window
8) Wait
9) File > Save as
10) Open in whatever other tool you prefer to stretch and process, and add the stars back in from the original linear data stack


To be fair my steps above don't include the installation of either plugin but this is also quite easy and instructions are provided. BX is well worth learning.