Astrophotography image processing

[Taff]

Hi' Do anyone know if you can buy DVD'S on astrophotography image processing.So you can stack your images and then work on images Thanks.Mark

[happy-kat]

If you are after tutorials to make a start with take a look at www.budgetastro.net the tutorials work pretty well with csc, gimp and paintshop pro.

[The-MathMog]

+1 for budgetastro. You can find his videos on youtube under "Doug German", those were the videos that got me started!

https://www.youtube.com/user/namregd/videos

[Jessun]

+1 for YouTube. Any software out there will have hours worth of clips on there, for free!

/Jesper

[Jessun]

BTW a somewhat quicker method is to visit someone who have some years of practice already.

I remember my first visit to a certain Olly Penrice, as he chucked my sub par data of the night into his PC and like a Jedi pulled out colour and detail beyond what I could comprehend.

I will never reach his level, but the kick start this visit provided was price less for an amateur like me.

/Jesper

[Jessun]

Here's the rig btw setup in Provence. A springy iOptron carrying much to much weight and a difficult RC scope, but Olly pulled something out of it despite all the shortfalls of my setup.

/Jesper

 

[Taff]

Hi' Thank you both for the webpages i just loaded them to look at.What i'm looking for is a store which sell DVD'S on stacking and for image processing.

[Taff]

Thanks Jesper' What a nice set up.

 

[Jessun]

Knowledge is virtually free these day. Why on Earth would you want to pay for it? After a while you'll develop you're own style anyways following YOUR work flow so that your images are unique.

/Jesper

[Jessun]

Just now, Taff said:

Thanks Jesper' What a nice set up.

 

Worst I ever owned ;-)

 

[bottletopburly]

Dave Eagle has some publications that may be helpful and also does workshops ,have a look on his website http://www.star-gazing.co.uk/WebPage/astrophotography-guides/ dave is also a SGL member 

[Taff]

Hi' Thanks for the web page.Mark

[Uranium235]

There are some basic and advanced notes in the SGL 2017 star party sub forum, with examples to download (if you have photoshop):

 

Or there are a couple of vids on my youtube channel: (some of the oncreen pointers are out of sync, but its enough to get you started)

 

 

[Taff]

Hi' Thanks for the page i have saved it to look at.Mark