The sun is the most active than it has been in years – there are nine active regions on the sun today: Here’s the annotated version: Here’s a brief description of each active region:...
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Lunar Eclipse Nov 19, 2021
This is an image from the moment of the peak eclipse of the lunar eclipse of November 19. 2021 : The moon appears red because the sunlight that is reflected from it is passing...
Enhancing Faint Details In Your Astro Images
Sometimes your image contains a faint aspect, like a nebula or galaxy, and you’d like to enhance just the faint part without affecting the rest of your image. This article walks you through the...
Creating Star Spikes: Reliable Method
I have written before about creating star spikes, or the star diffraction effect, but that method was not very reliable. This new method produces a nice effect on your stars and is relatively easy...
Using Photopea.com To Combine Three Mono Images Into One RGB
Combining three mono images into one RGB is a common problem. Fortunately, the solution is very straightforward. This article walks you through combining three mono images, one for each color of red, green, and...
Comet C/2020 F8 – SWAN
This is comet C/2020 F8 SWAN, as observed on April 30, 2020: This image was taken using the Slooh.com Canary 1 telescope and processed using MaxIM DL.
Creating an LRGB Image Using DeepSkyStacker, JS9, and Photopea.com
Often when taking exposures you end up with multiple files per color. DeepSkyStacker is perfect for stacking multiple images. This article is a step-by-step tutorial that walks you through using DeepSkyStacker, JS9, and Photopea.com...
Stretching and Combining Images Using Photopea.com
This article is a continuation of the article Creating an RGB Image Using DeepSkyStacker and GIMP, except instead of using GIMP this article demonstrates how to use Photopea.com, so there’s nothing extra to install...
Messier 46 and NGC 2438
This is Messier 46 and NGC 2438: Messier 46 is the open cluster of colorful stars and NGC 2438 is the small, colorful nebula above the center of the image. This picturesque image contains...
Recovering Blurry or Smeared Stars
Sometimes there’s wind during your observation and your image is good, except for elongated, smeared, or blurry stars. You could try this technique in Photopea.com to try to recover your image. Here’s an example...
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