Astrophotography processing - FREE SOFTWARE ONLY!!

Many of my viewers know, I'm completely dependent on PixInsight, which, while expensive, is in my opinion one of the best tools available for astrophotography processing. But there is also a range of excellent free software available, that can stack and process astrophotos! Let's have a look at a processing workflow that involves ONLY free and open-source software!

General affiliate link to OPT: https://bit.ly/2OIw6jH

DeepSkyStacker: http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
Siril: https://www.siril.org/
GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
Starnet++: https://sourceforge.net/projects/starnet/

00:00 Introduction
00:59 DeepSkyStacker: registering and stacking
09:05 Siril: noise reduction & stretching
13:09 Creating Lum frame in DSS
14:25 Siril: LRGB combination
16:56 Siril: Green reduction, background extraction, histogram equalization, saturation
26:06 GIMP: Nebula Core brightness adjustment
32:01 Starnet++ and star adjustment
Link to the whole stack: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17uGCskuqYKENVlpxg_bAk8ABX0e4mRIG/view?usp=sharing
I will likely delete this one in the near future, as it takes a large amount of space on my Google Drive.

Link to stacked frames: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ojWlOuGsRjW_0KCbLZaTpVKrhH7-2bB/view?usp=sharing

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