In this deep sky image processing tutorial, I’ll be combining all of the data I was able to collect on theOrion Nebulathis winter. This step-by-step tutorial should be useful to anyone processing a bright nebula with Adobe Photoshop. As we transition into spring, a new array of deep-sk...
In this post, I’ll walk you through the image processing steps I used to create the image of the Andromeda Galaxy shown below. This astrophotography tutorial uses Adobe Photoshop to bring out the intense colors and detail of a galaxy that was photographed using a DSLR camera and a small te...
Nebulae and galaxies are much less bright than the brightest stars. In astrophotography, it is the dark part of the image that we want to highlight. The “tone stretching” allows for emphasis the dark tones compared to light tones.Once...
Here is a crop of the galaxies themselves. I've used Photoshop, Startools, Pixinsight, and AstroPixelProcessor before. There's a reason I keep coming back to Pixinsight. In my opinion, the versatility it offers is unrivaled when considering software for processing astronomical images. An extra...
RawTherapee offers distinct advantages over other raw converters I have tested, producing images with smaller stars, color to the cores of stars, even saturated stars, finer detail in nebulae and galaxies, and lower apparent noise. The Night Photography Series: ...
That by itself works great for starnetted nebulae, but for stars and galaxies I use a colorspace collapse correction (from XYZ space) that forces the color palette to be more Planckian. For saturation boost I use asinh2in Siril, which yields a better outcome than just an inverse gamma (an...
Nebulae and galaxies are much less bright than the brightest stars. In astrophotography, it is the dark part of the image that we want to highlight. The “tone stretching” allows for emphasis the dark tones compared to light tones.
Compared to photographing deep-sky objects, like galaxies and nebulae like I normally do,photographing planetsis a breath of fresh air. I am not a planetary imaging expert by any means, but I will share the simple steps I used to get results like the one below. The process involves recordi...
Dedicated astrophotography cameras, such as ZWO ASI models, typically shoot in FITS or TIFF formats, which are much larger and less compressed than typical DSLR images. These cameras are designed to capturenebulaeandgalaxies, which requires gathering a ton of data over long exposures. ...
Topaz DenoiseAI has been my goto processor when needed for galaxies and nebula. I usually have original and noise reduced images saved. It is unfortunate that I can't find a command line way to run the program. Then it could be patched up with a folder monitor script to make it part ...