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Quickly Reduce Noise, Boost Contrast
By Erik
/ December 30, 2019
Sometimes you’re in a hurry, want to produce a good quality image, yet don’t have a lot of tools at...
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Composing Images Using Aladin
By Erik
/ December 30, 2019
Aladin is a free, interactive sky atlas that draws data from a broad range of sources, giving you access to...
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Toning Down The Core Of A Bright Galaxy Using GIMP
By Erik
/ December 27, 2019
Some galaxies have bright cores and we often publish images with the bright core intact, however, you can apply an...
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Quickly Boosting Details of Nebula, Dust, and Contrast
By Erik
/ December 24, 2019
I’m all about speed and quality when it comes to image processing. While I like to publish nice images, I...
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Quickly Boosting Details and Contrast
By Erik
/ December 24, 2019
I’m all about speed and quality when it comes to image processing. While I like to publish nice images, I...
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Adding A Star Diffraction Effect To Your Images – Alternate Method
By Erik
/ December 24, 2019
In another article, I showed you how to add a star diffraction effect to your images using some Photopea actions....
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Adding False Color to a Monochrome Image
By Erik
/ December 22, 2019
When publishing images online for general consumption, images that have color tend to get better feedback than images that do...
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Adding A Star Diffraction Effect To Your Images
By Erik
/ December 21, 2019
A star diffraction effect is a spiking effect from bright sources of light, such as stars. The diffraction effect is...
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Using Various Processing Approaches On The Same Image
By Erik
/ December 20, 2019
I have written extensively about using image processing applications like JS9, Fits Liberator, SAOImage DS9, and MaxIM DL. The questions...
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Processing An Image Using MaxIM DL and Photoshop
By Erik
/ December 15, 2019
Although I often write about using free tools like JS9, SAO Image DS9, DeepSkyStacker, Photopea, and GIMP, I use another...
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Creating an RGB Image Using DeepSkyStacker and GIMP
By Erik
/ December 13, 2019
Update: If you are looking for information about combining three monochrome images into one using GIMP, visit this article: Using...
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Starless Orion Nebula (M42)
By Erik
/ December 10, 2019
This is a starless version of the Orion Nebula, or Messier 42. I created this image based on a large...
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Messier 57 – Ring Nebula
By Erik
/ December 9, 2019
This is about 75 minutes of exposure on Messier 57 - the Ring Nebula. I captured this image using a...
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Generating Starless Images Using StarNet++
By Erik
/ December 8, 2019
Creating starless images is useful for a variety of reasons including making it possible to process just the subject of...
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Slooh Review
By Erik
/ December 8, 2019
I wrote a whole book about Slooh.com but it dawned on me that I never actually describe Slooh and how...
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Adding Luminance Images to SAOImage DS9-Processed RGB Images
By Erik
/ December 6, 2019
In the tutorial Creating An RGB Image Using SAOImage DS9 I showed you how to create an RGB image from...
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Creating An RGB Image Using SAOImage DS9
By Erik
/ December 6, 2019
SAOImage DS9 is a FITS file viewing and manipulation application from the Chandra X-ray Science Center (CXC) and the High...
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Selecting Stars In Your Image And Editing Them
By Erik
/ December 5, 2019
A common problem in astronomical image processing is dealing with stars. Sometimes you need to adjust the stars in your...
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Protected: Differences between processing approaches
By Erik
/ December 5, 2019
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