Astrophotography experiences, techniques and procedures.
Latest articleA practical procedure for organizing multi-session astrophotography projects: folder structure, NINA file naming, master calibration files, and grouping by filter and session in WBPP.
An introduction to the nature of noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and the capture and calibration techniques used to improve astronomical images.
A procedure for accurately representing active regions of the Sun and aligning solar photographs with heliographic coordinates.
A practical introduction to masks in PixInsight, including methods for creating luminance, star, color and gradient masks and applying selective adjustments.
A practical guide to calibrating, registering and stacking astronomical images with PixInsight's WeightedBatchPreProcessing (WBPP) script.
A complete nonlinear PixInsight workflow: stretching, dynamic range, sharpening, noise and star reduction, stars/starless separation, contrast, color, recombination and final annotation.
A practical guide to making the most of a visual or imaging session: darkness periods, weather, seeing, target selection, framing, apparent motion and reference tools.
An introduction to the PixInsight interface and workflow, followed by a complete linear processing sequence: cropping, gradient removal, color calibration, deconvolution, noise reduction and stretching.
An introduction to the calibration frames used in astrophotography, the noise or defect corrected by each type, and the conditions required to capture them correctly.
A practical guide to preparing an astrophotography session: required equipment, mount setup and balancing, polar alignment, synchronization, guiding, focusing and capture.