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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
  • Toggle search form

ENGLISH

The original language of this site is French (Quebec - Canada). To view the site in english, simply click on the icon at the top right:

Select English in the drop-down menu, as shown in the image above.

The website uses Google - Translate to automatically translate the entire website into English. It is one of the best apps to automatically translate a site into another language. It should be noted that some tables or graphs remain in French, because they are JPG images.

Hoping that the translation in English will be to your satisfaction,

Richard Beauregard
Sky Astro - CCD

Updated November 3, 2021

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