Telescope Live is in the process of switching over to CMOS cameras for all of their telescopes. Today, they released...
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Welcome To RemoteAstrophotography.com
A blog about how to do astrophotography from anywhere using remote telescope services like MicroObservatory, Slooh.com, iTelecope.net, Telescope.Live, and even the JWST. I’m Erik Westermann, an amateur astronomer and author, and I want to help others learn how to capture and process incredible images of the night sky.
On my blog, you’ll find lots of helpful articles and tutorials that are completely free. I cover everything from how to capture images using remote services to how to process those images using tools like FITS Liberator, JS9, and Siril. I also talk about some of the paid tools out there, like PixInsight, that can help take your astrophotography to the next level.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced astrophotographer, my blog has something for everyone. So check it out and start exploring the wonders of the universe from the comfort of wherever you are.
This site is also home to my free book, Remote Astrophotography Using Slooh.com.
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Telescope Live Adds Amazing CMOS Camera – Compare the Before and After Images
By Erik
/ January 20, 2023
AutoIntegrate.js Updated with BlurXTerminator, SPCC
By Erik
/ January 20, 2023
The popular AutoIntegrate.js script by Jarmo Ruuth has been updated to include both BlurXTerminator and the new Spectrophotometric Color Calibration...
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Effective Method To Reduce Stars In PixInsight
By Erik
/ January 19, 2023
Star reduction in astrophotography is a technique used to reduce the appearance of stars in an image. This technique is...
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Foraxx Palette Script: Dynamic Narrowband Combinations
By Erik
/ January 18, 2023
In June 2020, a blogger named The Coldest Nights published a post about combining narrowband images using dynamic PixelMath expressions...
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Online Narrowband RGB Combination Preview Tool
By Erik
/ January 17, 2023
I found an online tool that allows you to explore various color combinations for narrowband data. The tool combines Ha,...
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Exploring a Random Place taken by the JWST
By Erik
/ January 12, 2023
I have written before about downloading and processing images from the James Webb Space Telescope; I even wrote an article...
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Creating an RGB Image Using JWST Data and Free Tools
By Erik
/ January 9, 2023
In another article, I explained how you could download and process a JWST image using PixInsight; however, not everyone owns...
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NGC 1365 From the JWST
By Erik
/ January 3, 2023
This is the core of NGC 1365, a double-barred galaxy in the Fornax constellation. The image was captured by the...
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StarXTerminator 2.0 and AI 11 Released
By Erik
/ January 3, 2023
Russell Croman, the developer of the XTerminator line of software, has released version 2.0 of the popular and amazing StarXTerminator...
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Tarantula Nebula Taken using JWST
By Erik
/ January 3, 2023
The following image of the Tarantula Nebula, or NGC 2070, was taken using the JWST: The image is of the...
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Downloading and Processing JWST Images using PixInsight
By Erik
/ January 2, 2023
Remote astrophotography is all about using remote telescopes to acquire observations and there's current;y no more remote telescope than the...
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Using Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch to Balance the Histogram in PixInsight
By Erik
/ December 31, 2022
The Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch process and script are very powerful additions to the suite of tools offered on the PixInsight...
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Boosting Areas of Faint Signal Without a Mask Using PixInsight
By Erik
/ December 30, 2022
I have written before about how to boost areas of faint signal; however, that process is rather involved because you...
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Region around Wray 17-96
By Erik
/ December 28, 2022
This is the region around Wray 17-96, a star. The nebulosity makes this a very nice image. This was taken...
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Easy and Effective Noise Reduction using NoiseXTerminator
By Erik
/ December 19, 2022
PixInsight is powerful post-processing software that makes it possible for you to apply advanced image processing techniques to your images...
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GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch Process – Introduction
By Erik
/ December 17, 2022
The Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch script has been a fantastic addition to my processing workflow in PixInsight. The script's author has...
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Using BlurXTerminator for Deconvolution
By Erik
/ December 16, 2022
Russel Croman of RC Astro has introduced BlurXTerminator, a new, AI-powered tool for PixInsight designed for image deconvolution. This paid...
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C/2017 K2 with M10
By Erik
/ July 15, 2022
This is comet C/2017 K2 passing by Messier 10: This was taken using iTelescope.net's T8 system on June 15, 2022...
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Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
By Erik
/ July 6, 2022
The Large and Small Magellanic clouds are satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way galaxy. This is the Small Magellanic...
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SH2-131 – Elephant Trunk Nebula
By Erik
/ June 14, 2022
This is a widefield view of IC 1396, or the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, in the constellation Cepheus. The Elephant’s Trunk...
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