BlurXterminator just got EVEN BETTER! - Ai4 upgrade!
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
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As soon as I saw it on my FB feed I updated and played with it. Perfect timing!! Thanks
Perfect! Thank you for watching my friend :-)
Wow! Folks like Russell are geniuses! I struggle to understand a lot of the technical stuff, but these tools make such complicated tasks plug and play! Bravo! Dr B from Manitoba, Canada 🇨🇦
Absolutely agree Dr B! Folk like Russ are changing the game for the better imo :-)
Clear skies!
It's pretty insane what sort of tools are available to the amateur community these days. I remember looking at images on the Sky at night in the '70's as a kid, and thinking they were the mutts nuts and that NASA etc were wizards. Yet now, we mere mortals can achieve so much with relatively inexpensive equipment from our back gardens. It truly does blow your mind.
Well, it would if the chuffin clouds buggered off!
Clear skies Luke
It's absolutely unreal isn't it mate! I'm chuffed to be around for this phase of astronomy, we can do so much from our backyards now - the horizons have never been broader!
Hope you are well and that you have a truly lovely christmas my friend :-)
Many thanks for the headsup. Have tried it & it's fantastic !
So excellent to hear that my friend!! :-)
Happy to help mate!
Thank you again mate!! :-D
Looks like another great update
Cheers mate! It's tremendously good
Wow... an early present, look forward to having a play with the AI4 🌃
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Thanks so much Chris mate :-D I can't wait to play more with it!
I just can't believed the improvement! Russ has really outdone himself this time. I couldn't even use AI V2 on my last image because it destroyed the starfield and made everything double stars! But I just used AI V4 on it and now it's perfect! I was actually considering getting an AO to fix my funky stars from guide errors but now I can put my wallet back in my pocket 🙂 Thanks for the video Luke! Exciting stuff!
So good to hear that my friend, bxt has been revelatory for me - such an incredible tool!
I can't wait to try it on some fresh data!
Just wow. My latest project of flaming tadpoles is suffering from poor calibration bottom left. Can't wait to see if it saves it
That'll be a good test!! Hope it works out mate 👍
Hey Luke, cool Video. I already loved AI2 but AI4 ist crazy amazing 🤯
Thank you mate!! - this new AI is just unreal hey! :-)
its amazing how good it is.
It's pretty nuts!!
Luke strikes again! Fast video, thanks man!! No Heilung tho hahahahaha
Good eye again mate and thank you for the reminder haha! I've now tucked it into my picture frame so it can't possibly fall when I open/shut the door lol! :-D
Hope you have a very happy holidays my friend
@@lukomatico haha this band deserves. Happy holidays my Friend!! 😁
It's insane how good the new version of BXT is. I haven't managed to try it myself yet but I've been hugely impressed with the results other people are getting. Funny you should mention globular clusters, I'll definitely be reprocessing my M13 image with it to see what it can do.
It's bogglingly good hey! I honestly couldn't go back to processing without it really, it's increased my enjoyment a ton!
Looking forwards to seeing your m13 if you post it mate!
Hi Luke, I've had a good look at this earlier and it's truly unbelievable. I thought the original blur xterminator was excellent but the latest is something else ! The only thing I didn't realise was if you had the previous blurx saved as an icon on your workspace you need to delete it and create a new one otherwise every time it will ask you to choose / select ai 4. I checked the psf value on the new version and its incredible ! I reckon there's half the astro community going over old data tonight fixing up elongated stars !
Ah mate I think you're 100% right haha, I imagine there's tons of folks doing that :-) it's a heck of a tool and it just keeps getting better,
great tip about re-saving the shortcut by the way, thank you!
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and new year my friend, all the very best-
Luke
That looks bloody awesome mate still need a better PC before I dip my toes though sadly
Clear skies
me too man, i’m saving up for a computer that’ll be able to run pixinsight as well. i don’t know about you, but it’s so easy for me to forget that upgrading the software and the computer you use for image processing can be just as impactful as getting new gear!
I hear you mate yeah! it's pretty intensive in general to run PixInsight, but well worth it when you do! :-) wishing you a happy holidays mate!
The stars themselves are the point spread functions as we know real stars are point sources. Previous version appears to take all the stars and average them to produce and average PSF used to deconvolve the entire image. I was hoping for a dynamic spatially variable PSF, which would adapt the PSF for the local patches in the image. Obviously that would help to handle aberrations such as coma and astigmatism which worsen as we get further out.❤🎉
Good thought mate! - I believe it does split the image and perform deconvolution using a dynamic PSF, with the values mapped to subsections of the shot - please do correct me if I'm wrong though, I believe it's been doing that since v1 of the AI!
All the very best my friend!
Luke
First version also uses local segmented PSF, not a global average.
Luke, love BlurXterminator. BUT for me a lot of the “fun” of astrophotography is in developing my skills in tuning my scope to get the best images. For example sensor tilt and back focus. I do worry that tools like this are removing the need for that “skill”. Like I say I’m conflicted on this because I too love these tools.
i totally get this too, but do keep in mind that ‘garbage in, garbage out’ mantra. i don’t think tools like this remove the need for all that work, as your results will be *even better* when you put in that pristine data you’re proud of in the first place!
I agree 100% with what you just said. So now you can go out and buy the crappiest telescope in the world and make it look like a Hubble image because AI is going to generate that for you.
A lot of great points raised here! I guess for me I'm always of the opinion that if you enjoy something and you aren't hurting yourself or others, then do it! so I'll be happily BXT'ing my images, but I fully respect those who don't wish to of course!
For me, it's increased my enjoyment and satisfaction from my gear by a huge amount, to the point where processing without it just isn't a fun-sounding option anymore :-)
I’ll be interested how this affects your workflow using Bill Blanshan’s Narrow band Normalization tool - BXT v2 wants to be run linear, after linear colour combination; Bill likes to colour combine after stretching (IIRC). So: BXT Correct Stars only on linear SHO integrations, then linear colour combine, then BXT again, the unlinked (?) pixel math stretch, then Narrowband Normalization?
it's a great question mate, I don't think it'll change things too much for me but I won't know until I try I guess! Thanks for posing this thought-provoker!
All the best,
Luke
From another UA-cam video Russel sais it is on color images v4 will work best. And that you should do blurx correct only before spcc and run a fix on non stellar and reduce stars after you do spcc but still in linear. Not sure how that would work with mono data.
Might be that order is best to preserve star color
for fuck snakes russel croman, i’m already broke as it is! this just sealed the deal for me, i’m going to build a computer solely so that i can purchase pixinsight and these tools, i think that cost will improve my images way more than if i were to spend it on a better camera. cheers but also curse you luke, clear skies :)
I promise it'll be worth it mate, 100%!! - Best money I ever spent in astronomy wasn't even directly on astronomy gear lol!
Makes me think I could sell my edgeHD. Go back to using the Mak180 and BXT 🤔
That'd make a good test mate! I think the edge HD should win out though with that flat field and higher natural resolution from the increased aperture!
@@lukomatico I’ve used graxpert and BXT 4 on some older images from the Mak and it really narrows the difference 🤔
I really enjoy your presenting style. Videos are always helpful and well explained. I already had BXT but for some reason I can't get AI4 to work - error message that starts "** Error: ERROR: MLLoad() could not load tensorflow graph. Error 3: Converting GraphDef to Graph has failed" Don't know if you can help with that??
Russ sorted this for me in double quick time- had to download a more up to date version of the tensor.dll file (version 2.1)
Sorry about the late reply to this mate! So glad to see Russ was able to help you get this sorted rapidly 👍👍
Thank you ever so much for watching and giving such kind feedback!
Hope you have a lovely happy holidays
Nice video. This is a really cool plugin. Is there a free alternative to blurxterminator?
Thanks mate! - I think there's no direct competitor that's free, there are alternative tools such as EZdecon as part of the (now deprecated) EzSuite though, - maybe worth a try! In my view though the RC tools are money well spent :-)
Clear skies!
@@lukomatico I understand. I think you are right, RC tools seem to really deserve their money. But since 1 Dollar is 30 TL in my country, it costs me approximately 3000 TL and this is too much. I couldn't even buy Pixinsight yet :) So I use photoshop and Siril. Anyway, thanks for the answer. Clear skies!
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