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Sky Astro - CCD

Sky Astro - CCD

A site dedicated to astrophotography

  • ABOUT
  • IMAGES
    • Sites without light pollution
    • Site of extreme light pollution
    • Solar system images
  • OBSERVATORY
  • EQUIPMENT
    • Personal equipment
    • Rental equipment
    • Choosing equipment for astrophotography
  • PREPARING FOR A SESSION
    • Astronomical calculations
    • Telescope collimation
    • Setting up the telescope
    • Find the polar axis of rotation
    • Make a PEC
    • Autoguiding
    • Focusing the camera
    • Suggested exposure times
    • Maximum exposure time in light pollution
    • Using narrow band filters ...
  • IMAGE ACQUISITION
    • The different image formats
    • Acquisition of images used for preprocessing
    • Acquisition of deep sky images
  • IMAGE PROCESSING
    • The different compositing methods
    • Image preprocessing
    • Processing deep sky images
    • Planetary image processing
    • LRVB technique
  • ADVANCED TREATMENTS
    • Create a synthetic green layer
    • Create a Synthetic Luminance Image
    • Correct the red-salmon color
    • Color balance using curves
    • Remove dust, colored pixels and other imperfections
  • FILES
  • RÉFÉRENCES
    • Software for astrophotography
    • Miscellaneous links
    • Bibliography
  • ENGLISH
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REFERENCES

Books

Photoshop astronomy, Second Edition, R. Scott Ireland, Willmann-Bell Inc., 2005-2009, 320 pages

The New CCD Astronomy, Ron Wodaski, New Astronomy Press, 2002, 476 pages

Astrophotography, Thierry Legault, Editions Eyrolles, 2006, 155 pages

Website

Astrophotography and CCD Imaging, Denis Bergeron

Software

For photography of deep sky objects:

Maxim DL
Software used for the acquisition and preprocessing of deep sky images.

PHD Guiding 2
Software used for autoguiding the mount.

Fit Liberator
To open files in FIT format in Photoshop.

Photoshop
Software used for processing astronomical images.

Pixinsight
Software used for processing astronomical images.

Gradientxterminator
Software used to remove the gradient in the image.

Astronomy Tools
Addition of scripts in Photoshop for the treatment of astronomical photos.

Focus magic
Software used to correct elongated stars.

For the photography of the solar system (planets, Moon and Sun):

FireCapture
Solar system imaging software.

Pipp
Software used to decrease the displacement of the planet in the video.

AutoStakkert
Solar system image processing software.

Softwares Photoshop et Pixinsight are also used for processing images of the solar system.

Richard Beauregard
Sky Astro - CCD

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