Comets come, and comets go. Some return in a few years. Some might only be available to shoot once in a lifetime. Others show themselves one time only, lost thereafter to hyperbolic orbits or melting away like Icarus as they…
BlurXTerminator takes a different approach to deconvolution. Not only does it use a machine learning algorithm, but it was also developed using an updated mathematical formulation of deconvolution itself. Implicit in the classical formulation of deconvolution is the goal of…
BlurXTerminator version 2.0 and AI version 4 are now available for download. This is a major update with expanded optical aberration correction and improved accuracy. The changes are described in detail below. The update can be obtained by the usual…
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…