As a complete amateur, I've been getting pretty frustrated in trying to make Autostakkert and other Windows-based tools work on Mac for astrophotography via Crossover, so this was EXTREMELY helpful.The scenario you spent some time working on (not having flats, darks, or bias frames) also happened to be my exact predicament. I'll do these going forward, but wanted to give Siril as a go without them as a sort of proof of concept before investing much more time. Thank you, Kamil. I'll be checking out your other videos.
Excellent introductory video to Siril very clear and step by step processes, having been frustrated so far with my astrophotography processing this has helped a lot. Thank you.
this.is.brilliant. to the point, quick, and no bs background music (i'm a musician). one note: it wouldn't apply the North American nebula adjustment because you took the defaults on the optical train instead of entering your actual values, so it couldn't plate solve. and maybe stick the scripting on the end instead of the intro. other than that, this shows me Exactly what i need to know to get started in Siril -- thank you!
Thank you for this tutorial. I am struggling to get correct colors of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in Ps - will try and see what can be achieved with Siril
Very nice my friend. I will have to watch on a split screen to do this for the first time my Siril is 1.2.4 version and has some diffs on the screens. Do you have a video explaining the latest update 1.2.4??
I am brand new to this stuff and only have "lights" photos. I have no way of creating the steps so I don't have to produce the other "biases", "darks", and "flats" folders. Is there an easy step by step way where I can run the stacking only using my "lights" photos? The explanation in the video was over my head.
Consider that in a previous SiriL release (0.9.12-1) there were already scripts to process lights without some of the other calibration files (DSLR_Preprocessing_NoDark.ssf, DSLR_Preprocessing_NoFlat_NoDark_NoBias.ssf, DSLR_Preprocessing_NoFlat_NoDark.ssf, DSLR_Preprocessing_NoFlat.ssf)
Very cool to see what this program is capable of! I was already impressed by your insta post but I didn't expect the program to have so many options, especially such technical ones :D
Excellent. The script tutorial was very helpful. To resolve the issue with photometric calibration, adjust the focal distance and pixel size either typing them in manually or using "get metadata from image" found just below those boxes. This has worked for me every time so far going through over 100 different DSOs.
Again a great video, Kamil! I was looking into Siril a few weeks ago, and was just overwhelmed by the options it had, not realizing the scripting possibility. So, gonna give it a second try. What I would be interested in: any ideas about how to stack data from multiple nights? Did not search for it yet on the internet, but maybe you've already tried it?
Have you been able to write any scripts? Siril says that users can put scrips in their forum but so far no one has yet. I do mainly post processing in this software. I tried for three months to figure out how to stack mono data and came up with nothing.
Does it matter if you have the mode in auto scretch when making adjustments. I thought the point of that mode was so you could see what the image looked like before actually stretching it?
Awesome tutorial! Some of your suggestions will help me with my effort to get comfortable with Siril. I was wondering if ever you get the time to take a look at Gimp, and maybe put a similar tutorial together on that program, I just don't like the idea of having to pay for photo shop when Gimp is free, and does a lot of what Photoshop can do. Thanks again for another great video.
Loved it, Except in the initial part i was still confused, and used help of friend about making folders etc, but after that it was amazing, could follow what you were doing. So for me, it will be Siril all the way. Many thanks.
I was beyond frustrated with the extremely windows based world of A.P. As a mac user with a new A.P. rig that only spits out .fit files... I was about to sell it and run back to visual only ! You have given me light (pun intended ) at the end of this very dark tunnel. Thank you x10000000 for introducing me to Siril. Quick question. If all my files are in .fit do I need to do anything different or just do the file loading as you did here and let the program figure it out ?
Thank you for uploading. I got the chance to view a rocket launch in 2018. Memorable experience. I shared a pretty fun video of the trip to my channel.
This is super helpful. Thank you for walking us through workflow on Siril. Btw, I am curious about your camera and lens/telescope configuration for this shot.
I’d just process the sky stack like a normal DSO image and then blend it together with a landscape shot in Photoshop. The „select sky” in Ps works wonders 😉
I know siril is supposed to be for space photography but is it possible to stack far away terrain like a mountain? It worked with my pictures of the moon which doesn't seem too far off from earth land but once i tried some hills on the horizon it was super blurry from none of the pictures being properly aligned.
I'm a little late in making a comment here. However, how hard would it be for SIRIL to have included more scripts that would accommodate beginners? This simple scripts addition would have been very helpful. I'm at the point where I'm only capturing lights and darks. (c8, f6.3, asi533, AVX mount)
On the top right you find a menu which includes „add scripts“. You are redirected to the siril-homepage where you find several scripts to download. My biggest struggle was to find the correct folder to copy it in. If you find „siril - scripts“ on your harddisk you are close!
Hi Kamil. I have SIRIL ver. 0.9.12. The Photometric colour calibration does not work. Is that something that was not available as a function in earlier versions such as mine? I like my version, as it has several preinstalled scripts for DSLR processing with various calibration frames. I would appreciate any comments that you may have.
Actually no, I was shooting this from the attic of my house and I live in a 770k population city. I was using an Astronomik CLS light pollution filter though
Hi Kamil…I need a script that can extract Ha and Oiii channels from a coloured image created by an OSC….unfortunately the script that does this requires bias, flats and Darks. Would you be so kind please, as to create the alteration of this script so that it will function using only lights and Darks? …it would be most useful.❤️😊
@@kamilkp Thank you so much Kamil for attempting to do this… The script is the built in one that was included in Siril that does the extraction of the Ha and Oiii channels. The requirement for this script is Bias, Flats, Darks and of course Lights be in separate subdirectories of the Siril Working directory….However, it would be so good to have an alternate version of this script that would allow one to choose which calibration frames to use or a script that would allow the use of only Darks as a calibration requirement.
Hi all. Has anyone been successful writing a script or getting one to run? In my lights only script I get the following "The "requires" command is missing from at the top of the script file. This command is needed to check script compatibility." This is followed by the CWD and then "Script execution failed". I have the "requires 0.99.4 line where Kamil has it. Additionally all the scripts give me the same message. Any help would be appreciated.
@@guantanamoe5568 Good question. As someone who is very new to MacOS, it took me a lil tinkering to figure out I could just open it with TextEdit, which is basically Notepad if you're more familiar with Windows. (control + click, open with, TextEdit). If memory serves, it was that easy. Now that I've done that once, .ssf files open in TextEdit by default. Hope that helps!
Siril has to be (and I am a software engineer) the most convoluted and badly designed application I have encountered in the last couple of years. All I want to do is stack some images and there is no obvious and clear way of doing so in fact its GUI is so confusing and chaotic that I have almost given up with it. I have had to drag my images into the app because for some reason they forgot to add the ability to search USB / SD cards ?!? And even then there was no clear way to start stacking. While the alternatives are pay for software at this point I think they are worth it, no one wants to write scripts thats why we have an app with a GUI..... Whoever came up with this software is completely clueless.
You lost me when you started talking about writing your own scripts. Way above my computer literacy I'm afraid. Darks, flats and biases it is for me by the looks of it.
Great Job Kamil! Very clear demo of the capabilities of Siril.
Thanks Nico!
Bad lands saskatchewan
Probably the best tutorial video i've seen so far.
Cyril, from the Siril team.
As a complete amateur, I've been getting pretty frustrated in trying to make Autostakkert and other Windows-based tools work on Mac for astrophotography via Crossover, so this was EXTREMELY helpful.The scenario you spent some time working on (not having flats, darks, or bias frames) also happened to be my exact predicament. I'll do these going forward, but wanted to give Siril as a go without them as a sort of proof of concept before investing much more time. Thank you, Kamil. I'll be checking out your other videos.
Excellent introductory video to Siril very clear and step by step processes, having been frustrated so far with my astrophotography processing this has helped a lot. Thank you.
this.is.brilliant. to the point, quick, and no bs background music (i'm a musician). one note: it wouldn't apply the North American nebula adjustment because you took the defaults on the optical train instead of entering your actual values, so it couldn't plate solve. and maybe stick the scripting on the end instead of the intro. other than that, this shows me Exactly what i need to know to get started in Siril -- thank you!
Thanks Kamil. There is definitely a learning curve with Siril that you make somewhat less steep! Well done.
These are incredible Kamil--thank you very much for your passion and instruction.
You are very much welcome 🙂
Thanks Kamil. I've been using Siril now for a while for most of my post processing but I've definitely learnt some new skills from this video.
Thanks David. I’m glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for this tutorial. I am struggling to get correct colors of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in Ps - will try and see what can be achieved with Siril
Very nice my friend. I will have to watch on a split screen to do this for the first time my Siril is 1.2.4 version and has some diffs on the screens. Do you have a video explaining the latest update 1.2.4??
Great tutorial. And the part with the code alterations was indeed very useful. Thanks!
Thanks a lot for the video! Although I‘ve used siril for over two years now I could still learn something.
thank you so so much for this video! i only have access to siril and there are hardly any tutorials so thanks a lot!
I am brand new to this stuff and only have "lights" photos. I have no way of creating the steps so I don't have to produce the other "biases", "darks", and "flats" folders. Is there an easy step by step way where I can run the stacking only using my "lights" photos? The explanation in the video was over my head.
Amazing detailed tutorial - now I no longer need to use a VPC kluge! Thanks a ton for making these insightful videos!
Thank you . Much awaited video regarding Siril👍
Consider that in a previous SiriL release (0.9.12-1) there were already scripts to process lights without some of the other calibration files (DSLR_Preprocessing_NoDark.ssf, DSLR_Preprocessing_NoFlat_NoDark_NoBias.ssf, DSLR_Preprocessing_NoFlat_NoDark.ssf, DSLR_Preprocessing_NoFlat.ssf)
Very cool to see what this program is capable of! I was already impressed by your insta post but I didn't expect the program to have so many options, especially such technical ones :D
Hi! May I know how do you make that star streaks effect in your final output in Photoshop? Thanks
Great tutorial! Had the same problem with photometric calibration of my NGC 7000 images. Now I know how to do colour calibration differently in SIRIL.
Excellent. The script tutorial was very helpful.
To resolve the issue with photometric calibration, adjust the focal distance and pixel size either typing them in manually or using "get metadata from image" found just below those boxes. This has worked for me every time so far going through over 100 different DSOs.
Again a great video, Kamil!
I was looking into Siril a few weeks ago, and was just overwhelmed by the options it had, not realizing the scripting possibility. So, gonna give it a second try.
What I would be interested in: any ideas about how to stack data from multiple nights? Did not search for it yet on the internet, but maybe you've already tried it?
Have you been able to write any scripts? Siril says that users can put scrips in their forum but so far no one has yet.
I do mainly post processing in this software. I tried for three months to figure out how to stack mono data and came up with nothing.
Greta video, good demo. I followed the steps but unfortunately my result image is Grey! So no idea what I'm doing wrong...
Excellent video. This is new to me. Is it possible to process only light images without darks, flats, etc?
Thanks! Yes it’s possible you just need to alter the script accordingly
@@kamilkp Ok, thanks! I'll try.
Does it matter if you have the mode in auto scretch when making adjustments. I thought the point of that mode was so you could see what the image looked like before actually stretching it?
Awesome tutorial! Some of your suggestions will help me with my effort to get comfortable with Siril. I was wondering if ever you get the time to take a look at Gimp, and maybe put a similar tutorial together on that program, I just don't like the idea of having to pay for photo shop when Gimp is free, and does a lot of what Photoshop can do. Thanks again for another great video.
Loved it, Except in the initial part i was still confused, and used help of friend about making folders etc, but after that it was amazing, could follow what you were doing. So for me, it will be Siril all the way. Many thanks.
Thanks for the comment. I’m glad you liked it!
Great video.
It showed me the error "Images must have same dimentions". Can you help me? Why is that? All my images are the same.
how or where can I download / eneabled the Developer Version? please help!
Excellent tutorial. Thank you
Sigil certainly looks worth a look cheers for video
Great tutorial!!
I was beyond frustrated with the extremely windows based world of A.P. As a mac user with a new A.P. rig that only spits out .fit files... I was about to sell it and run back to visual only ! You have given me light (pun intended ) at the end of this very dark tunnel. Thank you x10000000 for introducing me to Siril. Quick question. If all my files are in .fit do I need to do anything different or just do the file loading as you did here and let the program figure it out ?
Great tutorial! Do you know if all of your light frames have to be the same ISO value or do you have to stack different ISOs separately?
I think it’s best to use the same ISO accross all frames: both lights and all calibrations (darks, flats etc)
Thank you for uploading. I got the chance to view a rocket launch in 2018. Memorable experience. I shared a pretty fun video of the trip to my channel.
Ty for preserving the ratio
This is super helpful. Thank you for walking us through workflow on Siril. Btw, I am curious about your camera and lens/telescope configuration for this shot.
Wow, You nailed it again..More of Siril together with DSLR and GIMP or Photoshop
Thanks!
Another great video, thank you.
Thank you! For this very nicely done tutorial.
Hi Kamil, watching the video for second time to digest it, come to my mind if it has a script to process Milkyway photos with landscape!
I’d just process the sky stack like a normal DSO image and then blend it together with a landscape shot in Photoshop. The „select sky” in Ps works wonders 😉
I know siril is supposed to be for space photography but is it possible to stack far away terrain like a mountain? It worked with my pictures of the moon which doesn't seem too far off from earth land but once i tried some hills on the horizon it was super blurry from none of the pictures being properly aligned.
Great video!
Very much , Informative 🤩
I don’t see the histogram transformation option on the bottom right, I’m on Mac
I'm a little late in making a comment here. However, how hard would it be for SIRIL to have included more scripts that would accommodate beginners? This simple scripts addition would have been very helpful. I'm at the point where I'm only capturing lights and darks. (c8, f6.3, asi533, AVX mount)
On the top right you find a menu which includes „add scripts“. You are redirected to the siril-homepage where you find several scripts to download. My biggest struggle was to find the correct folder to copy it in. If you find „siril - scripts“ on your harddisk you are close!
How did you open the script editor?
Nice tuto ! Thank you !
Please make some more :) on this software.
This is really good. May help me play with the scripts a bit.
Excellent video
i am on windows and it does not give me an option to save things as .ssf what are you editing this script in?
Hi Kamil. I have SIRIL ver. 0.9.12. The Photometric colour calibration does not work. Is that something that was not available as a function in earlier versions such as mine? I like my version, as it has several preinstalled scripts for DSLR processing with various calibration frames. I would appreciate any comments that you may have.
Was the picture of the North America Nebula taken with a modded camera or a stock camera?
Stock
@@kamilkp oh wow awesome! It must've been very low light pollution!
Actually no, I was shooting this from the attic of my house and I live in a 770k population city. I was using an Astronomik CLS light pollution filter though
@@kamilkp wow awesome job! How much integration time was the picture?
Um, I think about 100 minutes
Hi Kamil…I need a script that can extract Ha and Oiii channels from a coloured image created by an OSC….unfortunately the script that does this requires bias, flats and Darks. Would you be so kind please, as to create the alteration of this script so that it will function using only lights and Darks? …it would be most useful.❤️😊
Which script is it? Is it one of the built in ones? Send it over to me
@@kamilkp Thank you so much Kamil for attempting to do this…
The script is the built in one that was included in Siril that does the extraction of the Ha and Oiii channels. The requirement for this script is Bias, Flats, Darks and of course Lights be in separate subdirectories of the Siril Working directory….However, it would be so good to have an alternate version of this script that would allow one to choose which calibration frames to use or a script that would allow the use of only Darks as a calibration requirement.
All of my files are in FITS format.Any ideas of the best way to convert FITS to TIFF? Thanks
Yeah I show that in the video. With SiriL you can save any image as TIFF
Heyy
Whn i download in my Windows pc
It shows "Siril is not downloaded commonly ,are you sure u trust it"
What should i do?!
Big thanks pozdrawiam z polski
I still don't get how to get to make those damn 4 folders.
Hi
If is for free why doesn’t let me
Save my project?
Hi all. Has anyone been successful writing a script or getting one to run? In my lights only script I get the following "The "requires" command is missing from at the top of the script file. This command is needed to check script compatibility." This is followed by the CWD and then "Script execution failed". I have the "requires 0.99.4 line where Kamil has it. Additionally all the scripts give me the same message. Any help would be appreciated.
Same mine says error in line 21
I was able to use his exact alterations and it worked for me. Not sure that's helpful, though, so good luck.
@@thisischriswalker
How do you even open those scripts to alterate them? Which program?
@@guantanamoe5568 Good question. As someone who is very new to MacOS, it took me a lil tinkering to figure out I could just open it with TextEdit, which is basically Notepad if you're more familiar with Windows. (control + click, open with, TextEdit). If memory serves, it was that easy. Now that I've done that once, .ssf files open in TextEdit by default. Hope that helps!
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Siril has to be (and I am a software engineer) the most convoluted and badly designed application I have encountered in the last couple of years. All I want to do is stack some images and there is no obvious and clear way of doing so in fact its GUI is so confusing and chaotic that I have almost given up with it. I have had to drag my images into the app because for some reason they forgot to add the ability to search USB / SD cards ?!? And even then there was no clear way to start stacking. While the alternatives are pay for software at this point I think they are worth it, no one wants to write scripts thats why we have an app with a GUI..... Whoever came up with this software is completely clueless.
You lost me when you started talking about writing your own scripts. Way above my computer literacy I'm afraid. Darks, flats and biases it is for me by the looks of it.
Technically overwhelming 😬at least for a 65 year old retired guy…lol
Forget this shit! OMG!!!! This is totally crazy! No way I'm going to do all this bullshit!