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...
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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...
Processing A Noisy Slooh.com Image Using MaxIM DL
Noisy images are a challenge to process because the image’s signal can often be close to the noise level, making it difficult to smooth out noise while retaining detail in your image. MaxIM DL...
Processing a Noisy Slooh.com Image Using PixInsight
I took an image of Hickson Comapct Group 68 a couple of years ago. I never processed it because it was based on a single mission using the Canary Two telescope, so the exposure...
Correcting Column Defects Using PixInsight
A common problem in astrophotography is column defects. A column defect occurs when a column of pixels is on even though that was not present in the actual image. Here’s a sample of NGC...
Fade Stars Using Photopea
Sometimes the stars in your image make up the majority of your image and toning them down could result in a much better image because your subject would become more apparent. Here’s an example...
Telescope Live Review
Telescope Live is a remote imaging service with telescopes located in Spain, Chile, and Australia. A friend made me aware of this service and they were offering 20 free imaging credits to try their...
Insight Observatory Starbase Review
Remote Astrophotography is using online telescopes to acquire images of the night sky. Typically it is you that chooses the target, schedules the image acquisition, and processes the resulting images. There is an alternative:...