In the article Using Astro Mosaic for Slooh.com Telescopes, I explained how to plan a mosaic using Astro Mosaic by Jarmo Ruuth. I also explained how to book missions and briefly explained what you...
Category: Image Processing
Processing A Slooh.com Image For Astrophotography – Part 4
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...
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...
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...
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...
