EP2 - Sunday, 31st May 2020 7:30pm BST - Adventures in Astro Image Processing by Nik Szymanek

[daz]

3 minutes ago, david_taurus83 said:

I've missed this! Will there be a YT upload like Ep 1?

Yep!

 

[happy-kat]

brilliant again, thank you to Nik for talk and FLO for the doing

 

[MushroomBill]

Lovely images and really good talk. Thanks Nik.

[Doug64]

Great Talk and images.

Thanks Nik and everyone else involved in bringing the talks to us.

Doug

[Star101]

Very interesting and enjoyable. Good info and amazing pictures too. 

Thanks Nik and FLO too.

[knobby]

Yep, thoroughly enjoyed it , thanks SGL and Nik.

[JamesF]

Missed this one because it clashed with dinner, so I shall watch it later on catch up

James

[Freff]

Great talk, very informative.

I clicked on the record button on top left, not sure what it does.

My broadband kept dropping out so I'm looking forward to the YT post. 

[daz]

1 minute ago, Freff said:

Great talk, very informative.

I clicked on the record button on top left, not sure what it does.

My broadband kept dropping out so I'm looking forward to the YT post. 

That just shows the session was being recorded Tony....

Once Grant has got a minute, it will get uploaded and he'll post the details

[tomato]

Excellent talk, thanks for the heads up on Affinity Photo for £23.99!

[fozzybear]

3 minutes ago, tomato said:

Excellent talk, thanks for the heads up on Affinity Photo for £23.99!

+1 just hit the button

[steppenwolf]

An excellent talk by Nik and some great images to back it up - very enjoyable!

[shirva]

Another great broadcast tonight,, well done folks

[Littleguy80]

1 hour ago, tomato said:

Excellent talk, thanks for the heads up on Affinity Photo for £23.99!

Snap. Looking forward to learning my way around it. 
 

Many thanks to Nik and the organisers for a fantastic talk  

[Freff]

1 hour ago, daz said:

That just shows the session was being recorded Tony....

Once Grant has got a minute, it will get uploaded and he'll post the details

Thanks Daz, I guessed it was something at your end.

[newbie alert]

Thanks once again to Nik,  and the team at Flo,  really enjoyed this one, loads of info... 

[daz]

Thanks to everyone that attended - really great talk from Nik and some interesting questions that will lead to future workshops/talks!

 

For those that need the links:

Affinity Photo - Currently on sale for £23.99, with a huge 90 day trial - https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/

Nik's Webpage - http://www.ccdland.net/

Nik's Flikr stream - https://www.flickr.com/photos/36672102@N07/

Nik's book Shooting Stars II - https://shop.astronomynow.com/product/shooting-stars-2/

(Note, the page says 2nd edition, but Nik assured us it was a version 2, a complete update)

 

 

[old_eyes]

This is going very well! Will the team be able to keep up the high standard that has been set? Tune in next time to find out!

I am going to try an think of some topics to suggest, but fear that they will be too niche.

[carastro]

Great Zoom session which i managed to get into this time on my laptop, I think last week's failure was a fault on my desktop which I will get my computer man to look into after the current CV crisis is over.  

Thanks Nik for a great talk and thanks SGL for organising it all, looking forward to the next one.

What a great site and community spirit is SGL. 

Carole  

[Nik]

Thanks for the kind comments and feedback. Some great questions at the end.

Sorry about the 'senior moment' regarding the H-alpha-RGB images! 🤪 

Happy to cover that in a future session. Best wishes, Nik

[daz]

I've just pressed the button on the Affinity Photo deal, and will now work through Nik's articles in AN!

 

[Tenor Viol]

Really good session and one of the better experiences with Zoom - bandwidth in rural Shropshire can be troublesome at times, but no problems. As someone who's been away from astronomy for quite a while, I'm keen to get in to AP and Nik's talk was really helpful (I'm sure I heard Nik talk about 15 years ago - but I can't remember accurately what I had to dinner yesterday!). 

The move forwards in technology and equipment has been huge in the last 20 years... just need to get the 'scope purchased... 🙂  

[Littleguy80]

2 minutes ago, daz said:

I've just pressed the button on the Affinity Photo deal, and will now work through Nik's articles in AN!

 

Are the articles available online or can those issues be ordered? Question for those of us who foolishly didn’t buy AN already 😳

[Tenor Viol]

13 minutes ago, daz said:

I've just pressed the button on the Affinity Photo deal, and will now work through Nik's articles in AN!

 

Affinity aka Serif have been producing alternative software for a very long time. I used their desk top publishing package for many years to produce newsletters for various groups I was in. I think they decided to completely re-platform their products and have been working through them. I was one of the myriad of beta testers for the the new DTP package, which has a similar look and feel to Affinity Photo.

The plus with Affinity is that updates to handle say new OS versions or new cameras are free: that's one of the things that finished me off with Photoshop Essentials - I needed to upgrade a version to handle RAW files for my new camera and then a few months later another version for a different camera...

It's relatively new and they are adding functionality regularly as I understand it. One gap is there is no catalog function with it at present. I logged a query on their forum page about that and got the impression 'work in progress' but don't know how accurate that is. 

Currently all the Affinity apps are on the 90 day free trial and half price, but I think that expires soon. 

Ron

  

Edited June 1, 2020 by Tenor Viol

[Nik]

It's a remarkably good package and for the current price is the deal of the century! 😮  A lot of people don't like the monthly subscription to Photoshop so Affinity offers a great alternative to that.

I suspect that will continue to improve in the future as they seem to be receptive to users' input. The RGB combination methodology is, well....testing, but does the job once you understand the procedure. 

Cheers,

Nik

 

Edited June 1, 2020 by Nik
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