This is Mars, passing by Messier 44 – the Beehive Cluster: The encounter between the two objects lasted for three days, and this image was taken on the encounter’s second day. The telescope moved...
Mastering the Hubble Palette: A Step-by-Step Guide to Reducing Green Cast in Your Narrowband Astrophotography
A popular technique for creating stunning narrowband images of celestial objects is to use the Hubble Palette, which uses narrowband filters to map specific wavelengths of light to different colors. While this method can...
DeepSNR for PixInsight: Enhancing Noise Reduction in Astrophotography with AI and NAFNet Technology
DeepSNR for PixInsight was released in December 2022 by Nikita Misiura, the creator of the famous StarNet++ and StarNet V2 star removal software. Like StarNet++ and StarNet V2, this is a free plugin for...
GraXpert: A Powerful Tool for Removing Gradients in Astronomical Images
GraXpert is a free, standalone open-source application for Windows, Mac, and Linux designed to remove gradients from your astronomical images, regardless of whether they are stretched or linear, and in just about any popular...
Using AutoIntegrate.js and Manual Processes In PixInsight To Process a Comet Image
Processing an image of a comet is not a straightforward process because the comet moves during your observation session. If you run AutoIntegrate.js on your images of the comet, the stars will be aligned,...
Telescope Live Adds Amazing CMOS Camera – Compare the Before and After Images
Telescope Live is in the process of switching over to CMOS cameras for all of their telescopes. Today, they released their first images using the new CMOS camera on their Chile One telescope. Swipe...
AutoIntegrate.js Updated with BlurXTerminator, SPCC
The popular AutoIntegrate.js script by Jarmo Ruuth has been updated to include both BlurXTerminator and the new Spectrophotometric Color Calibration process that were both recently introduced. Although these are just a couple of checkboxes...
Effective Method To Reduce Stars In PixInsight
Star reduction in astrophotography is a technique used to reduce the appearance of stars in an image. This technique is often used to reduce the visual impact of large, bright stars, which can be...
Foraxx Palette Script: Dynamic Narrowband Combinations
In June 2020, a blogger named The Coldest Nights published a post about combining narrowband images using dynamic PixelMath expressions using PixInsight. The article’s author said, “Channel combining is by far my favorite step...
Online Narrowband RGB Combination Preview Tool
I found an online tool that allows you to explore various color combinations for narrowband data. The tool combines Ha, SII, and OIII images using tri-color and bi-color palettes, making it easy to figure...