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Artemis II Plunging into Deep Space
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet — Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. The Artemis II mission is an emotive event and offers a unique opportunity. Our vision was to show the spacecraft flying over deep-sky objects. This would be a very unusual... -
MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch Version 1.1 Released
MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch version 1.1 comes with two new features. Now, we can fine tune the Contrast Recovery option using the Intensity slider. Contrast Recovery allows to have a contrast level similar to a delinearization using a midtones transfer function while preserving the star profiles... -
The MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch Tool
MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch (MAS, for short) is an image delinearization tool based on statistical and multiscale analysis. It has the following goals: Bypassing the traditional PixInsight STF - HistogramTransformation workflow to perform a consistent delinearization in an image set. Apply a... -
XISF 1.0 Specification, Revision 1
We are pleased to announce the publication of Revision 1 of the XISF 1.0 specification (document version 1.01, September 2026). More than nine years after the final XISF 1.0 specification was published, this revision extends the format with new standard features, clarifies every point where the... -
WBPP 2.9.0 Release Announcement
Hi all, I am pleased to announce the release of Weighted Batch Preprocessing version 2.9.0 which introduces a highly requested feature: the Frame Selection Step. This new capability allows you to analyze, visualize, and select the best frames before integration using objective metrics such as...
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XISF 1.0 Specification, Revision 1
- Juan Conejero
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Revision 1 of the XISF 1.0 specification (document version 1.01, September 2026). More than nine... -
WBPP 3.1.0 Release Announcement
- roberto.sartori
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Hi all, I am pleased to announce the release of Weighted Batch Preprocessing version 3.1.0, which makes the recovery of an interrupted execution... -
PixInsight 1.9.5 Lockhart Released
- Juan Conejero
- 22 min read
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Hi all, We are pleased to announce the release of PixInsight 1.9.5 Lockhart, a major update of the platform available now for Linux, macOS, and... -
Technology Preview: MLDenoise for macOS ARM64
- Juan Conejero
- 3 min read
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We are glad to announce the release of MLDenoise, a new machine learning tool for noise reduction of astronomical deep-sky images. This is a... -
MARS DR2
- Vicent Peris
- 3 min read
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We are glad to announce MARS Data Release 2, now available for download from the PixInsight Software Distribution System. Once downloaded, you... -
PixInsight 1.9.4 Lockhart — Build 1695 Released
- Juan Conejero
- 4 min read
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We have just released a new version of PixInsight: 1.9.4 Lockhart build 1695. This release provides stability improvements and bug fixes on all... -
PixInsight 1.9.4 Lockhart — Build 1693 Released
- Juan Conejero
- 5 min read
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We have just released a new version of PixInsight: 1.9.4 Lockhart build 1693. This release provides stability improvements and bug fixes on all... -
PixInsight 1.9.4 Lockhart Released
- Juan Conejero
- 10 min read
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We have released a new version of PixInsight today: 1.9.4 Lockhart. This release provides stability improvements, bug fixes, and new features on... -
Artemis II Plunging into Deep Space
- Vicent Peris
- 3 min read
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Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet — Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions. The Artemis II mission is an... -
The New V8 JavaScript Runtime in PixInsight 1.9.4 — Script Porting Guide
- Juan Conejero
- Updated
- 27 min read
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As most readers already know, I have been working hard for more than one year to replace the old SpiderMonkey 24 engine, which has been powering... -
The Andromeda Galaxy
- Vicent Peris
- 4 min read
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“Immediate enjoyment” does not give rise to beauty, since the beauty of a thing is revealed “much later,” in the light of another, through the... -
MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch Version 1.1 Released
- Vicent Peris
- 2 min read
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MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch version 1.1 comes with two new features. Now, we can fine tune the Contrast Recovery option using the Intensity slider... -
WBPP 2.9.0 Release Announcement
- roberto.sartori
- 5 min read
- Views: 10K
Hi all, I am pleased to announce the release of Weighted Batch Preprocessing version 2.9.0 which introduces a highly requested feature: the Frame... -
Are we filling a gap with MAS?
- Juan Conejero
- 2 min read
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Since the initial release of our MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch (MAS) tool in December, we've been reading many reviews and observing some very... -
MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch Released
- Juan Conejero
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Hi all, We are glad to announce the release of a new image processing tool on the PixInsight platform: MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch... -
The MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch Tool
- Vicent Peris
- 3 min read
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MultiscaleAdaptiveStretch (MAS, for short) is an image delinearization tool based on statistical and multiscale analysis. It has the following... -
PixInsight Class Library License Version 2.0
- Juan Conejero
- 2 min read
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PixInsight Class Library (PCLL) 2.0 is the software license under which we'll release all new versions of PixInsight from now on, including all...