PixInsight - Frame Selection

Blink: Manual Frame Selection

updated: 2021-08-20


Purpose

Evaluating and Rejecting Bad Frames (e.g. with clouds, meteoroids, airplanes, vibrations, blurred pictures …).
Remark: the blink module cannot be stored as a symbol in the workplace, it can only be started from the the main menu.

Activation

Menu Process 🡺 All Processes 🡺 Blink

Input

aligned original images (light, dark, ...)

Output

approved pictures, should be stored in subfolder "1_Approved"

bad ones will be moved to a subfolder named "1_Rejected"

Previous Step

Picture Shooting

Next Step

Debayer Function

Tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwbHIO0suJc



Step

Action

Description

1
Add Light Frames
  • Open all images (subs) that you want to include. 


Remark: importing a 56MB RAF file from a Fuji takes more than 1 minute!

2
Ckeck Lightframes
  • Check all imported subs, use the speed setting quickly run though the frames e.g. by scrolling up and down the list of loaded images
  • or use the Play Animation to move through the frames
  • Select all bad frames and move them into a subfolder which you could name “rejected”

3

  • Close Blink

4
Next Step: Automatic Frame Selection


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