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A Brief Guide to Calibration Frames: Bias, Dark, Flats and Dark Flats

Many Budding Astrophotographers are often confused on exactly what Calibration frames are and if they even need to use them since they do take quite...

The Ultimate Guide to Editing a Milky Way Photo using Lightroom

Many Astrophotographers lean toward using Photoshop, but Lightroom can be easier and more intuitive to edit your Milkyway shots. Post-processing is an extremely subjective part...

FALSE INVERTED – More Fun Solar HA Processing Madness

False Inversion can make that ordinary Solar Image turn into an Extraordinary showpiece with just a few short and simple steps by Jeremy Hughes I...

PIXINSIGHT – Rescue Background Signal

We start with the image (this image I’ve applied the method with which the result will be exaggerated) clone 2 times (image A and B)...

3-D Space Animation Tutorial

I Finally finished the tutorial on how I do these animations. To follow along with the tutorial you will need Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Aftereffects....

Post-Processing – Which Software Is The Best?

Post-processing astrophotography images is mandatory: you cannot avoid it. It can be a fairly long and technical process, but it is necessary to squeeze out...

Photoshop or PixInsight?

So what’s better for processing images, PixInsight or Photoshop? No, this isn’t exactly another one of those opinion pieces. Google “PixInsight vs. Photoshop” and you...

Photoshop Techniques for Astrophotography

BASIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT USING CURVES Abobe Photoshop is a powerful and versatile program that is well-suited for astrophotographers. However, precisely because of its many functions,...