Use Pure Raw settings for DSLR images in PixInsight
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Author: chrisvdberge
Using MaskedStretch for better stars
A detailed look into using PixInsight’s MaskedStretch process for better star protection in your astro images
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The importance of good stars in your images
Stars are a vital part of our astro images. We’ll look into the ways the stars in your images are affected and how you can improve your results with better looking stars.
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Getting the colors right in your astrophotos
QHY working on cooled APS-C and Full Frame cameras
QHY will be releasing new cooled CMOS cameras based on the Nikon D810a and Nikon D5300 chips.
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The power of dithering for hot pixel removal
Unfortunately my D5100 has a lot of hot pixels due to some problems with the modification. So it’s an interesting example to demonstrate how 5 frames already got rid of almost all of the hot pixels.
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Irregular galaxy NGC 1313
M24 Sagittarius star cloud and surroundings
Since there were many nights with high cirrus clouds when I was on my astrotrip to Kiripotib, I deviated from my prepared plan and chose some star clusters to photograph. By the way, it was amazing and remarkable how good the nights still were even with that haze in the sky. Since there is no light pollution, you can’t really see the thin haze other than the ‘feeling’ it was less transparant as it could…
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The Dark Tower
Barnard’s galaxy through Galactic Cirrus clouds
Barnard’s galaxy, NGC 6822, is a barred irregular galaxy in the constellation Sagittarius. It is part of the Local Group and is situated at a distance of approximately 1.6 million light-years away. In many pictures it seems quite a dull galaxy, but it has some remarkable star formation areas which seem to be almost perfect circles. Galactic Cirrus As you can see Barnard’s galaxy seems to be embedded in dust. This so called ‘galactic cirrus’…
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