IDS! IDS! IDS!

Thanks, Boilermakers. And it's nice to know that my first newspaper still has a spine.

I probably should! Then again that 300-character limit is a challenge for me even when I'm writing telegraphically.

Oh, you think you're *so clever*, don't you?

Fortunately you appear to be perfectly correct. Good one.

I find that BlurXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, and StarXTerminator really make the PixInsight purchase worthwhile. I love Astro Pixel Processor but I'm using it less and less as PI acquires new features.

I used to use the free standalone Python script Starnet++, and got good results. But I switched to PixInsight for almost all of my processing early this year, so I tried out Russell Cronan's StarXTerminator. Same idea, a machine-learning program trained on astrophotos, but visibly better results.

Thank you.

Details in the alt-text. It turned out that the hydrogen-alpha filter really made the supernova pop, so the inset is 25 minutes of that.

Hey, we're all learning, here. Pretty amazing what a cell can do, eh?

Thanks. I should have mentioned BlurXTerminator in the original post, but I promise the original was pretty sharp to start with.