[gregbradley]

I have started on learning PixInsight in earnest. I have the Astrophotography Manual book by Chris Woodhouse which I bought for its section on PI. I also have the subscription to IP4AP PI tutorials.

Up to now I have only really played with PI and used dynamic background extraction to clean up some gradients and also morphological transformation to round out some elongated stars.

So I am a newbie to the software so I can post simplified how to's in a thread here if anyone is interested and we can learn together. I would take the "look at me I am so smart I use non comprehensible big words to show how smart I am" out of it. PI is riddled with that. I guess morhphological transformation (morphological means to do with the shape/form of something, transformation means to change into something else) sounds a lot smarter than "star rounder tool"!

I started with the tour of the various icons on the windows which I found to be the most confusing thing about PI. Microsoft windows icons we are all familiar with but what are those extra symbols on the windows and which one should you be using etc???

Anyone let me know if there is interest and we can start from total newbie and work our way up to a finished image. A lot of the tools are not that hard but getting an image calibrated, registered, data rejected and combined like in CCDStack is new.

Greg.