Amateur Astronomer's Guide

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Learn how to choose your astrophotography style, your equipment and the pitfalls to avoid.

You will also discover the different acquisition, calibration and positioning techniques.

Finally, the secrets of stacking, processing and finishing will be revealed to you.

1) Process Icons, cropping and alignment, extraction and processing before histogram transformation

- Downloading SHO process icons

- Installation of new processes on pixInsight such as Xterminator processes

- ScreenTransferFunction

- Cropping with DynamicCrop

- Alignment of SHO (our RGB) images with StarAlignment

- Creation or extraction of luminance

- Gradient extraction with AutomaticBackgroundExtractor

- Star reduction and sharpening with BlurXterminator

- Noise reduction with NoiseXterminator and/or TGV Denoise

2) Transformation of the histogram of the different layers and processing of the luminance details

- Histogram transformation

- Star extraction with StarXterminator or Starnet2

- Exaggeration of details with HDRMultiscaleTransform on luminance

- Creation of masks

- Exaggeration of contrasts with LocalHistogramEqualization on luminance

- Process Clone Stamp to erase imperfections

3) Creation of the SHO combination

- Process Icons created by Photon Millenium

- Reinforcement of layers

- Mixing multiple SHO combinations with PixelMath

- Color saturation

- Reintroduction of the luminance layer.

4) Star Treatment

- RGB combination of stars

- Image Solver

- Calibration of images by spectrophotometry

- SCNR green noise removal

5) RGB combination

- RGB combination thanks to LRGB Combination

- Color calibration by spectrophotometry

6) Finishing touches

A beginner's guide to astrophotography that will help you learn it from A to Z in one easy, quick, and effective way.

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