NGC3718 (The Warped Galaxy) Project for PixInsight (HaLRGB)

Pixinsight Project for advanced users of PXI: This PXI project is a perfect example of how to create an HaLRGB image of a galaxy with faint structures in PixInsight This product allows to follow exactly the processing of the data set in PixInsight performed by digital creator and astro photograph Michal Wierzbinski. You need to save this product to your computer, unzip the compressed file. Please open the project in PixInsight using the function Open > Load project. You will see the master light files opening in the work space. On the right hand side you will see all used process icons to process this data set. All process icons contain a description explaining the respective process steps. You need to purchase the parent product (NGC3718) together with this add-on product! The project uses free third-party scripts, not included in the PixInsight installation. Those are: Night Photos: Photometric Continuum Subtraction: https://www.nightphotons.com/software/photometric-continuum-subtraction/ PixInsight Toolbox: Continuum Subtraction: https://www.ideviceapps.de/PixInsight/Utilities/ Seti Astro: Fame: https://www.setiastro.com/pjsr-scripts/ GraXpert: https://www.graxpert.com/ Cosmic Photons ImageBlend: https://www.cosmicphotons.com/pi-scripts/imageblend/ Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch: https://www.ghsastro.co.uk/updates/ The project uses paid third-party processes, also not included in the PixInsight installation. Namely: • RC Astro BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator and NoiseXTerminator: https://www.rc-astro.com/ The final project has 128 steps (process icons) in five workspaces Workspace 1 – creation of SuperLum and RGB images Workspace 2 – creation of Ha image Workspace 3 – integration of LRGB Workspace 4 – integration of Ha into LRGB