In astronomical photo processing, you often hear the words ‘stretched’ and ‘linear’ to describe the state of an image. Often a linear image is quite dark, except for the very brightest parts of the...
M27 Captured Using Vaonis Stellina Smart Telescope
I recently acquired a Vaonis Stellina smart telescope and have been taking images from my backyard. Images include the Sun, Moon, various nebulae, galaxies, and stars. I acquired a Stelling because it offers a...
Using NarrowbandNormalization To Enhance Your Narrowband Images
Normalization in the context of multi-channel image processing is a process where you scale an image’s pixel values to fall within a particular range, to make it easier to synchronize the brightness levels of...
Investigating the Robin’s Egg Nebula
Introducing the Robin’s Egg Nebula, or NGC 1360 for the space enthusiasts. Located 1,100 light years away within our Milky Way galaxy, this cosmic beauty is illuminated by a binary system at its core,...
Mastering LRGB Astrophotography Processing with Siril: A Comprehensive Guide
I created a script for Siril that takes as its input, calibrated L, R, G, and B images and produces a final image that’s ready for finishing touches, or saving to a preferred format...
Processing the Sample Image of Messier 20 using Siril
This article is a companion to the article, Streamline Your Astrophotography Experience with Siril and Siril Scripts, and assumes that you have an integrated, pre-processed RGB image available on your Siril desktop. I assume...
Streamline Your Astrophotography Experience with Siril and Siril Scripts
Siril is powerful astronomical processing software used by new and veteran astrophotographers. Siril has many tools and features that make it ideal for processing your astronomical images. In this article, we will explore the...
Getting Started with Stellarium
Stellarium is a freely available planetarium application that is popular in the astronomy community because it provides a realistic view of the sky and what objects look like through your telescope. The level of...
M4-Class Solar Flare from AR3372
I created a new ad to run on SpaceWeather.com based on a flare that was caught on the Slooh.com Canary 5 Solar Telescope: The flare came from the active region AR3372 and was an...
Slooh.com Updated – Working on Updates to the Book
On July 17, 2023, Slooh.com updated the dashboard and some functionality. The updates affect the Slooh.com Handbook so I am presently working on updating the content; there’ll be a bunch of new screenshots and...
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