PixInsight

ljchaks

I have an ASI071 Camera and am attempting to stack my images in PixInsight. Firstly I need to set image scale in System Parameters. I need to know the image scale and pixel size for my camera? Can you help with this information? Thank you! Leslie

WalterT

Pixel size is 4.78 (source: https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/product/asi071mc-pro)

Use Startools.com CCD Suitability calculator to calculate your image scale.

AstroDude42

Pixel scale in PI is not the pixel size of the camera. You can find out the pixel scale by uploading your FITS file at http://nova.astrometry.net/upload
On the results page, you will find the right number. Just wait until processing is finished. This might take a while.

And btw: it is astronomy.tools, not startools.com and this will tell you if your camera/scope combination produces correctly/over-/under- sampled images.

Kring

I’ll share that if you are looking for a good processing tutorial for PixInsight, this is by far the best series I encountered. He does a great job of explaining it and I reference his video’s often and have great results in short time. It’s Tim from AstroAddict

https://youtu.be/dFZCV2ZzqFo