Imaging - Tips, Tricks and Techniques

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1. Basic widefield with a Camera and Tripod

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   By jgs001, January 17, 2009
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   • Chefgage
   • Tuesday at 16:47

2. PHD Guiding Basic Use and Troubleshooting

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   By IanL, June 20, 2013   

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   • wornish
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3. Easy LRGB Planetary Processing in Registax

   By TheThing, October 3, 2011
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4. Planet Astrophotography with a Manual Dobsonian Tutorial

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   By Memory Bliss, February 7, 2013   

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   • Mr niall
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5. Filters for DSO imaging

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   By MartinB, November 26, 2008
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   • Space Oddity
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6. Simple removal of gradients and vignetting

   By rikyuu, June 22, 2009
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7. Making a Lunar Mosaic

   By jgs001, May 24, 2010
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8. DSO Imaging on a budget

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   By MartinB, March 31, 2007
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9. LRGB imaging primer

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   By MartinB, January 16, 2008
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10. Image processing primers feedback

    By MartinB, February 1, 2007
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11. 7) How to make stars smaller and sharper

    By MartinB, January 31, 2007
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12. 4) Layers and selection tools

    By MartinB, January 31, 2007
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    • MartinB
    • January 31, 2007

13. 5) Creating a star layer

    By MartinB, January 31, 2007
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    • January 31, 2007

14. 2) Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

    By MartinB, January 31, 2007
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    • MartinB
    • January 31, 2007

15. 6) Reducing star trails

    By MartinB, January 31, 2007
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    • MartinB
    • January 31, 2007

16. A) Overview of MartinB's imaging primers

    By MartinB, January 31, 2007
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    • MartinB
    • January 31, 2007

17. 3) Primer -How to stretch the histogram using levels and curves (long download)

    By MartinB, January 20, 2007
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    • moondog
    • January 23, 2007

18. Color CCD + HA

    By Wayne76, Saturday at 12:59
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19. Taking darks - a cautionary tale

    By Demonperformer, 23 hours ago
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20. Focusing

    By MICKYJD65, February 10
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21. Hoya red intensifier on full spectrum dslr

    By mislav, January 7
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22. Flattener spacing

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    By blinky, September 22, 2014
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23. Which is better, incremental shorts subs for cores on DSOs, or one short set, one long one?

    By AstroAndy, December 31, 2018
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24. How to make flats for very wide field imaging?

    By marekintheuk, January 8
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25. NGC 404

    By Demonperformer, December 10, 2018
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    • Demonperformer
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