Image Processing - Examples

Deep sky images - Astro Art version 2.0 used to control the camera and acquire the images. All images dark subtracted, averaged & stretched using Astro Art. Deep sky images sharpened using Astro Art's Maximum Entropy De-convolution. 

Planets - colour images below taken using TouCam Pro, then processed and sharpened using Registax. Final minor adjustments to brightness, contrast and resizing done using Paint Shop Pro (Version 7)

Saturn 17th Jan 2004, 12" F5.3 Newtonian, 2 X Barlow & 20mm Televue Plossl eyepiece, 1/33 sec exposure.

            1,000 raw images, averaged using Registax                                     Sharpened with Registax, resized in PSP. 

NGC4565 in Coma Berenices, 26/04/2003, 12" F5.3 Newtonian & MX916.

            A single raw 30 second image                                     A 30 second dark frame

An average of 23, 30 second exposures (each dark subtracted), resized 120%.    Brightest adjusted, and sharpened using Maximum Entropy De-convolution

Resized again using Paint Shop Pro

 

Jupiter , 17th February 2003, 10" Maksutov Cassegrain & 2 X Barlow - F30. An average of 14 images

        14 Raw images dark subtracted and averaged                                  Contrast adjusted & sharpened using an unsharp mask

 

Saturn, 5th January 2003, 10" Maksutov Cassegrain & 2 X Barlow - F30. An average of 8 images.

8 Raw images dark subtracted and averaged                         Contrast adjusted & sharpened using an unsharp mask