When you schedule a reservation using Slooh.com and get your images the next day, you’ll find that Slooh.com generated a number of images as shown: In this case, Slooh.com produced two images. The one...
Processing A Slooh.com Image For Astrophotography – Part 2
In the last part of this series, you learned the basics of processing the PNG image of the Orion Nebula for astrophotography. You brought out the details in the nebula and brighter areas. That...
Processing Slooh.com PNG Files for Astrophotography – Part 1
When you take an image using Slooh.com you typically get two PNG images as shown here in an observation of the Orion Nebula, or Messier 42: The image on the left is a monochrome...
Assembling a Mosaic Using PixInsight
A mosaic is a single large image made up of a number of smaller images. Astrophotographers use mosaics to create high-resolution images of regions that are larger than their telescope’s field of view. While...
Using Astro Mosaic for Slooh.com Telescopes
Sometimes a target is larger than the field of view of the telescope you are using. To capture such large targets, you need to point the telescope at different parts of the large target...
Horsehead Nebula and Region
This is the Horsehead Nebula, or Barnard 33, and the surrounding region: The image is dominated by the glow of the star Alnitak, or Zeta Orions on the left side of the image, and...
Remote Solar Telescope At Slooh.com
Slooh.com offers its members a number of telescopes that are online during the local night. Slooh.com does offer its members access to a remote solar telescope that is online during the day and that...
Difference Between Dynamic and Automatic Background Extractor In PixInsight
PixInsight offers two powerful background modelization methods: AutomaticBackgroundExtractor (ABE) and DynamicBackgroundExctractor (DBE). Many people simply use ABE and are satisfied with the results, thinking that PixInsight chooses the optimal background for you, when in...
Processing a Slooh.com Image In PixInsight Revisited
Note: This article discusses manually processing a Slooh.com image using PixInsight. Refer to this article for a detailed workflow that takes advantage of scripts to simplify the workflow yet still take advantage of PixInsight’s...
Processing a Slooh.com Image Using PixInsight
Update: I have published a PixInsight workflow for processing Slooh.com images. The article discusses the workflow and has links to articles that discuss the details about each step. I recently took an image of...