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PixInsight

PixInsight is an advanced image processing platform specialized in astrophotography and other technical imaging fields, constantly pushing the boundaries of astronomical image processing with the most powerful toolset available.

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Cost / License

  • Pay once
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Linux  Linux is the reference development OS. On X11 (Linux) a compositing extension manager is required. OpenGL is used for display hardware acceleration. CUDA is still in development
  • Mac  macOS version is a port. Metal is used for display hardware acceleration. CUDA is still in development
  • Windows  Windows version is a port. Direct3D is used for display hardware acceleration. CUDA is still in development
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  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Live Preview
  3.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  4.  Support for Multiple Monitors
  5.  Command line interface
  6.  Support for scripting
  7.  Ad-free
  8.  Support for Layers
  9.  Hardware Accelerated
  10.  RAW Photo Editors
  11.  Support for 64 bit
  12.  C++
  13.  Specific for 64-Bit
  14.  Image stacking
  15.  Image Masking
  16.  Support for Javascript
  17.  Graphical User Interface
  18.  Color management
  19.  Image Processing

 Tags

  • photo-stacking
  • astrophotograpy
  • astronomy-software
  • assembly-language
  • histogram
  • 8-bit-images
  • 32-bit-images
  • deep-sky
  • 64-bit-images
  • 16-bit-images
  • astronomy
  • Free trial
  • deconvolution

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PixInsight information

  • Developed by

    ES flagPleiades Astrophoto S.L.

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $353.

  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
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What is PixInsight?

PixInsight is a modular, open-architecture, portable image processing platform available for FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

PixInsight is an advanced image processing software platform. It has been designed specifically for astrophotography and other technical imaging fields. PixInsight is a modular, open-architecture system where the entire processing and file handling capabilities are implemented as external installable modules.

PixInsight has been ported as a native 64-bit application to FreeBSD, Linux, OS X and Windows operating systems. PixInsight is a strongly multi-threaded environment able to exploit all processors and processor cores available on modern hardware.

PixInsight is both an image processing environment and a software development framework. The core PixInsight application integrates three user interfaces: a graphical interface, a command-line interface, and a scripting interface based on the JavaScript language. As a development platform, PixInsight provides the PixInsight Class Library (PCL), an ISO C++ framework for development of PixInsight modules, and the PixInsight JavaScript Runtime (PJSR), an ECMA 262-5 compliant environment readily available in the core PixInsight application.

The PixInsight project originates from the inside of astrophotography: PixInsight is a software platform made by astrophotographers, for astrophotographers.

PixInsight is based on design principles and paradigms that are quite different from what is customary in most imaging applications. More specifically, these are some partial answers to your question:

PixInsight is an object-oriented software platform. In PixInsight, object orientation pervades the whole system from its inner core to the most visible elements of the user interface. This has very important implications; see FAQ 1.6 for a more elaborate description. ---PixInsight provides rigorous implementations of efficient, modern algorithms and tools. For example, there are techniques and tools that other applications regard as "advanced" but we consider as obsolete. ---PixInsight supports five numeric types to represent and store pixel data: 8, 16 and 32-bit integers, plus 32 and 64-bit IEEE 754 floating real numbers. The five data types are supported transparently by all processing tools. In addition, PixInsight supports 32 and 64-bit floating point complex pixel data to store images represented in the frequency domain. Complex pixel data are supported by the PCL and PJSR development frameworks. ---In PixInsight, each tool has been designed to maximize your control over the underlying processes and algorithms. Within reasonable limits of usability, there are no concessions to simplification, or approximate/simplified implementations. ---In PixInsight, versatility, accuracy and efficiency always prevail over ease of use.

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