This is the last article in the series about processing Slooh.com PNG images. In this article you’ll learn how to recover an image that has a radial gradient on it. A radial gradient is...
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Transit of Mercury Across the Sun – November 2019
This image is a composite of Mercury transiting the Sun during November 11, 2019: This image is made up of a number of images taken using the Slooh.com Solar telescope during the approximately five...
Processing A Slooh.com Image For Astrophotography – Part 3
In this article, you’ll learn how to process a Slooh.com PNG images of a faint nebula by performing a nonlinear stretch on the luminance image using Curves and Levels and you’ll perform a nonlinear...
Comet Neowise Using Slooh.com
This is the famous comet Neowise, or comet C/2020 F3, using aSlooh.com telescope: This was taken using Slooh.com’s Canary Three telescope which as an OSC color camera attached to it. This post provides you...
Processing Slooh.com PNG Images Series
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 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...
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...
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...
