The question I often get asked after someone has been imaging for a while is, “How can I select the best objects in the sky for the highest signal to noise ratio (SNR) so...
Category: Image Processing
Image Processing – Part 2 – Enhancing a JS9-4L Image Using Photopea
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...
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...
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...
Slooh Solar Cam
Slooh.com offers its members eight telescopes to use to image the sky. Among the telescopes is the Slooh.com Solar telescope located in the Canary Islands. This image was taken on February 6, 2019 using...
Jupiter
This is Jupiter as imaged using the Slooh.com Canary Four Solar System telescope in July 2018. This image is right from the telescope and I haven’t modified it in any way. Jupiter is the...
NGC 891
This is an image of NGC 891, or the Silver Sliver, as processed by Slooh.com. The image was actually taken by Slooh.com member KeithS but I piggybacked his mission to be able to get...
Asteroid 6478 Gault
This unusual object is an asteroid called 6478 Gault. It’s unusual because it has a tail and an asteroid doesn’t usually have a tail. It’s thought this asteroid collided with something some time around...
