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Articles on workflow and processing, experiences with equipment, or just general stories related to astronomy or astrophotography.
Photographing Double Stars
Double stars are among the rarer objects to photograph. Still, it’s fun to try capturing two close stars and have them split by carefully adjusting exposure and processing. In this blog, I show how I photographed three of them.
Processing Tips & Tricks
Here you'll find links to advanced PixInsight tips used to create the images on this site. Each link leads to the specific image with a detailed, often step-by-step, explanation of the method. This page serves as a reference to help you find the relevant pages and examples quickly. The list is updated each time new techniques are being described.
Year in Summary 2024
The year 2024 marked a significant change in my astrophotography hobby, by moving one of my setups to a remote hosting facility in Spain. This resulted in an almost 10-fold increase in activity and 39 published images. Check out this blog for the details.
How bad is oversampling?
My system at the remote observatory is highly over-sampled. How bad is that, and does it make sense to bin the data? This blog will answer those questions, based on a recent image of the Crescent Nebula. This also allowed a comparison with historic and properly sampled data.
Removing Colour artefacts from OSC images
When processing OSC images several colour artefacts keep coming back. In most cases it is not very difficult to remove them in post-processing. In this blog some tips and tricks with examples and workflow on how to remove some of them.
Six most important improvements in WBPP 2.0
The WeightedBatchPreProcessing script in PixInsight has been an invaluable tool to calibrate frames. The recently released version 2 is a massive update with a lot more customisation options and transparency. Read here about the six biggest improvements.
The ASI6200MM Pro - First Light
After an initial first impressions review of the new ASI6200MM Pro camera, weather situations were finally allowing some proper imaging. Read how the real-world experience with this camera has been during its First Light (spoiler alert: very good).
Noise Reduction using MMT
There are many ways to reduce the noise in an image. MultiscaleMedianTransform (MMT) provides a straightforward approach that gives very good results most of the time.
A fast way to make a PSF-image
Making a PSF image for the deconvolution process can be very time consuming. With this script, most of the process is automated, which saves a lot of time.
How to manage your files
In this blog we look at some potential workflows on how to manage, name, store and backup the sometimes hundreds of images that are often collected for one final photograph.