StarXTerminator 2.2.0 has been released for PixInsight. This update corrects the way that StarXTerminator handles masks. StarXTerminator has always correctly handled masks with respect to the target image: masked (black) areas are protected from star removal. This is useful in…
NoiseXTerminator version 1.2.0 has been released for PixInsight. This update contains the following changes You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make sure you’re set…
BlurXTerminator version 1.2.0 has been released. This is a minor update with the following changes: You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make sure you’re…
StarXTerminator version 2.1.3 has been released for PixInsight. This is a moderate update with the following changes: You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make…
NoiseXTerminator version 1.1.4 has been released for PixInsight. This is a minor update with the following changes: You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make…
BlurXTerminator AI3-beta2 has been released. This is a beta test release of the neural network definition for BlurXTerminator that expands the range of optical aberrations to include additional coma and astigmatism profiles. Please note that this is a beta release…
BlurXTerminator version 1.1.18 has been released. This is a minor update with the following changes: You should be prompted to update to this version automatically by PixInsight. If this doesn’t happen, review the PixInsight installation instructions and make sure you’re…
BlurXTerminator version 1.1.16 has been released. The primary change in this version is a correction that eliminates minor clipping in shadow regions on some deep-sky images, and a major clipping issue that frequently occurred on lunar, planetary, and solar images.…
Update: BlurXTerminator 1.1.16 has been released The beta repository () is no longer available. Please use the standard PixInsight installation instructions to update to version 1.1.16. A beta-test version of BlurXTerminator, version 1.1.16, is now available for testing. The primary…
Welcome to the new RC Astro website! We’re very excited to bring this new site to all RC Astro customers. The old site dated back to the early 2000’s and was badly in need of a refresh. No matter when…
Deconvolution does not add detail to an image or increase its resolution. All any deconvolution algorithm does – or tries its best to do – is to restore contrast to existing detail in an image. In this video from May 7th, 2023…
GradientXTerminator 1.6.0 has been released. In terms of features, this is a minor update: 32-bit RGB and greyscale image processing has been enabled when using GradientXTerminator with Affinity Photo. UPDATE: The Affinity Photo bug mentioned below has been corrected by…
Drizzle is a technique for combining multiple exposures of the same scene that can recover resolution lost to undersampling. That’s the theory, anyway, and it does do what is says on the tin, but there is a problem: the recovered…
StarXTerminator 2.0 with AI version 11 is now released for both PixInsight and Photoshop/Affinity Photo, and is available for download. This is a major update with the following changes: PixInsight-specific changes: Photoshop-specific changes: Updating PixInsight PixInsight updates should be automatic…
What is AI? What is a neural network? In this presentation from the 2022 Advanced Imaging Conference I give both a high-level and low-level, nuts and bolts view of these powerful mathematical engines. Posted by gracious permission from the board…