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...
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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...
Exploring a Random Place taken by the JWST
I have written before about downloading and processing images from the James Webb Space Telescope; I even wrote an article demonstrating how you can create an RGB image using freely available tools. As I...
Creating an RGB Image Using JWST Data and Free Tools
In another article, I explained how you could download and process a JWST image using PixInsight; however, not everyone owns PixInsight, so I experimented with using freely available tools to create a James Webb...
NGC 1365 From the JWST
This is the core of NGC 1365, a double-barred galaxy in the Fornax constellation. The image was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and processed by myself: I put this image on its...
