MasterClasses on Pixinsight and Astronomical Image Processing

"Adam Block has a couple great tutorials showing times to use different tools multiple times when normally you do it once before stretching. The trick is to actually learn what the tool is doing and why its doing it (this is why Adam Block is the defacto standard in learning to process! What everyone ignores and just simply hits a couple of checkboxes and buttons, he explicitly and deeply demonstrates the how, when, and why you want to do such or such for every tool!) [EDIT] While Adam's tutorials are very much PI oriented the concepts used in PI by Adam apply to many if not all astro-processing software packages. The ui may be different but the algs under the hood are basically the same! Heck I have my own tools I have written thanks to listening to Adam!"

"I dont have an inquiry, just some comments. After watching a good number of your videos, I wanted to reach out and offer my thanks to you. i've watched a lot of Pixinsight instructional videos at this point. The distinction I would make between your courses vs many others, is kind of like comparing the experience of learning to paint with watercolor (understanding the tools, the rules, etc) to going out to a paint by numbers activity. Its not just that my images look better (which is great), its that I am a better imager. My images look better because I now understand what I could be doing differently, not just following a set instructions that may or may not work on the next image. You've helped me build a foundation upon which I can grow with confidence, curiosity, and wonder. On a very personal level, I've been going through a very rough time in my life and the gift of your courses could not have been better timed. Finally, I'd like to add that when I was first diving in, I opened I submitted an inquiry through the site regarding trouble I was having with finding the fast track videos. you took the time to reach out personally and ensure I could find them. The time you spent both helping me find those classes, as well as the enormous amount spent on your amazing courses - mean a great deal to me. Thank you for sharing your gifts, and enriching this hobby for so many folks."

"I subscribed to your wonderful Fundamentals course and am up to video #23! I have a scientific background and I can tell that your choice of words in your videos is very carefully done and very mindful of language ambiguities, a thing that I care very much about. You pay attention to details, but you do so intelligently by not fixating on unnecessary precision. I get really annoyed by the lack of scientific rigor when it's needed, and you don't disappoint! I've often given courses of atmospheric science to laymen audiences and I see myself in you when I see you taking the time to *explain* *why* things are the way they are, *even* if they are laypeople. I really appreciate this concern of yours in that regard. A silly aside, but what the heck: I'm French speaking (Québec) and... your English pronunciation is superb 😆! Combined with your slow pace, the clear and mindful explanations, your videos are a joy to listen to and easy to follow."

"I am now waist deep in the fundamentals course. I just needed to tell you that you are a great teacher. I am not sure what I am more impressed with - you or PixInsight. I am reminded of a poem by John Keats - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. There's a line in it that describes how powerful he found that translation of Homer:

"Then I felt like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific." -Keats

Fine job, Adam. Truly."