[garymck (Gary)]

Hi,

I wonder if those who have knowledge and experience of both these programs, could point me in the direction of which to purchase? Astro Pixel processor seems to be a real winner in the ease of use area. It does not have the depth of options that Pixinsight seems to have, but might be excellent for initial processing?

I have just had a wonderful first light with my new Mesu 200, and as I can now do some relatively serious imaging, am looking at purchasing some new software for processing. At the moment I would rate myself as merely a dabbler at processing, and have a limited amount of cash to spend after being caught by a drop in the Oz $ when paying for my new mount.

I cannot afford to buy both, so must make a choice here. I currently own Astroart 6 and Photoshop CS6. I quite like Astoart, and found it fine for OSC images, but I find dealing with light pollution difficult and a bit hit and miss.

Several years ago I had a trial version of Pixinsight but couldn't make head nor tail of it. I recently bought Kellers book, and requested a new trial from the Pixinsight team, but they didn't bother to reply to my email :-( so I can't really try it out.

I'm interested in obtaining decent results without aiming for an APOD... I'm not someone who will spend 8 hours processing an image. I might spend an hour or two....

I have watched several of the APP videos and it looks really good, but I would really value the opinion of people who really know processing ! Does APP plus Photoshop + really good processing? or should I go for Pixinsight

cheers
Gary