Visit my blog post to download the raw data for practice:
https://www.ancientphotonsastro.com/p...

This video is intended for a beginner with some knowledge of Pixinsight. My goal was to present a basic workflow for completing the processing of a galaxy using Pixinsight. I use a couple of Pixinsight addons for this demonstration: BlurXterminator and NoiseXterminator. I highly recommend these processes. They save a lot of time, and do an excellent job. If you don't have these, you can simply insert your own deconvolution and noise reduction methods in their place.

I acquired this data (about 5 hours integration) from my old bortle 8/9 backyard outside of Washington, DC using a Celestron Edge HD 8 with 0.7x reducer and a ZWO ASI533 MC OSC camera. Additionally, I didn't have the correct backspacing dialed in for the reducer which led to CA and elongated stars in the corners. That said, it's not great data but it's fine to practice with. Perhaps you can produce something nice with it. Enjoy!

0:00 Intro
1:20 Cropping out stacking artifacts
2:08 Dynamic Background Extraction
4:24 Image Solver (adding coordinates to image)
5:47 Spectrophotometric Color Calibration (SPCC)
6:40 Deconvolution (BlurXterminator)
10:38 Noise reduction (NoiseXterminator)
13:20 Stretching the image
14:20 Mask Generation and Curves adjustment
19:14 Local Histogram Transformation
20:47 Sharpening (Unsharp Mask)
24:09 Selective Color Saturation
25:47 Final Curves adjustment
27:10 Star Saturation
29:33 Outro