Update Nov 2019: This article was originally published in August 2019. Since then Slooh.com has made a FITS viewer called JS9 available to its members. While JS-4L is similar to JS9, some functionality is...
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Image Processing Online – Part 1 – Using JS9-4L
In the introduction to this series of posts, I showed you the results of processing images using three different techniques. This post discusses how you can create color images from FITS files using the...
Image Processing Online – Introduction
I mentioned earlier that I found a way to process images completely online, so I did not have to install anything on my system to do it. I use free services to do this...
Processing Images Completely Online
I cover image processing in the second half of my book, yet I wanted to know whether it was possible to edit an image without installing any software. Although I have readers use free...
Planning Ahead: Figuring Out When An Object Is In The Sky
In another post I discussed Andromeda’s Parachute – a quadruple lensed quasar. From the post we found that the coordinates are RA 01:47:09 and Declination is 46:30:37. So now you know where it is...
Researching Numbered Objects
Sometimes you’ll come across an object that doesn’t have a name or designation yet want to know more about it, or perhaps even image it. This post discusses how you can find more information...
Understanding Simbad
I mentioned Simbad just once in my book, Remote Astrophotography Using Slooh.com (which you can download for free here). But what is Simbad and how can you use it? What Is Simbad? Simbad is...
