Miscellaneous
17,336 items in 132 lists
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Chris White's Guide to Fixing Tilt and Spacing overcastobservatory.com
Annoying and hard to fix, tilt and spacing can ruin your imaging. This guide will help you eliminate them.
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PHD2 openphdguiding.org
Arguably THE guiding software. Free and open source.
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NINA nighttime-imaging.eu
Free and very powerful astrophotography imaging suite.
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Independent Starless Processing nightphotons.com
This article details a simple and effective method to separate, process, and later reintroduce stars into an image without artifacts. It also discusses how to get more naturally looking stars from a narrowband dataset.
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12 Deep Sky Objects to Photograph nebulaphotos.com
A beginner friendly list of objects to photograph with a DSLR camera.
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Messier messier-objects.com
All objects from the Messier catalogue with lots of background information and images.
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Low Level Landscape Lighting lowlevellighting.org
A method for lighting the landscape for night-scape photography. This is its official site.
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lightpollutionmap.info lightpollutionmap.info
This website uses satellite data to show light pollution related content.
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Compare Telescopes lambermont.dyndns.org
A web-based tool that helps astrophotographers decide between two imaging setups. It quantifies the real light-gathering and sampling trade-offs instead of relying solely on aperture or f-ratio.
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KStars kstars.kde.org
Part of the free Ekos imaging suite, this cross-platform planetarium will help you image the sky.
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Master PixInsight's Astrophotography Statistics: Analyze, Adjust, Enhance kozmosi.io
Successfully processing astronomical images entails a series of informed decisions. Understanding the data is crucial. This article provides a comprehensive guide to the Statistics process in PixInsight.
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Signal, Noise and Histograms jonrista.com
Part of Jon Rista's Astrophotography Basics series, this article provides a great bit of theory around signals, noise and histograms.
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Ekos indilib.org
An advanced cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux) observatory control and automation tool.
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Heliora heliora.app
Free web planner for Sun, Moon, and eclipse photography, with a 3D sky view against the terrain horizon at your chosen location.
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The Deep-Sky Imaging Primer goodreads.com
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Astrophotography is Easy!: Basics for Beginners goodreads.com
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Inside PixInsight goodreads.com
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Eise eise.app
Browser-based planetary stacker with no installation required.
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Calibration Frames Cheat-Sheet drive.google.com
(cached version)
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How to Eliminate Star Halos in PixInsight digitalstars.wordpress.com
One of the more challenging issues in astrophotography. Charles Bracken, the author of “The Deep-Sky Imaging Primer”, has you covered.
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Digital Camera Database digicamdb.com
A database holding sensor characteristics for a plethora of digital cameras.
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Flat Fields and Stray Light in Amateur Telescopes diffractionlimited.com
A great resource to help one identify and resolve flat-fielding issues.
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DeepSkyStacker deepskystacker.free.fr
Registering, stacking, and simple post-processing.
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IDAS filter comparison cloudynights.com
CloudyNights forum member Jim Thompson tests and compares a large selection of IDAS brand filters. (cached version)
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Mastering PixInsight (and the Art of Astroimage Processing) cloudynights.com
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Drift Alignment by Robert Vice (D.A.R.V) cloudynights.com
Accurate alignment in just a matter of minutes.
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Cloudy Nights cloudynights.com
Arguably the largest community forums.
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Lights and Shadows ciechanow.ski
This interactive guide to light by Bartosz Ciechanowski, teaches about travel vectors, irradiance, radiance, angles, luminance, and more.
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Color Spaces ciechanow.ski
Understanding color models, spaces, perception, white point, intensity matches and mismatches (and more!) is crucial for astrophotographers. Bartosz Ciechanowski explains it all in this interactive guide.
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Cameras and Lenses ciechanow.ski
Another interactive guide by Bartosz Ciechanowski, this time about cameras and lenses. A must-read for anyone interested in telescopes and photography.
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FocusMax ccdware.com
Accurate, automated and repeatable focusing.
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AutoStakkert! autostakkert.com
Planetary stacking software using alignment points for local motion correction.
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The Differences between CCD and CMOS Sensors atik-cameras.com
One of the best explanations to CCD vs. CMOS camera sensors.
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Mastering Flat Frames: Gain matching astroworldcreations.com
This blog series by Willem Jan Drijfhout will take you on a deep dive into the topic of flat frames (Part 2: Flat Panels compared, and Part 3: Bias, Flat-Darks and Conclusions).
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Removing Color Artefacts From OSC Images astroworldcreations.com
On his blog, Willem Jan Drijfhout explains how to remove color artefacts from images captured with a One-Shot-Color camera.
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Nikon DSLR models matrix astrophotography.app
A list of Nikon models with useful reference information such as sensor and pixel size, quantum efficiency, shutter life, etc.
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Canon EOS DSLR models matrix astrophotography.app
A list of Canon EOS models with useful reference information such as sensor and pixel size, quantum efficiency, shutter life, etc.
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APT astrophotography.app
The Swiss army knife for your astro imaging sessions.
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Astronomy Tools astronomy.tools
A tools suite with various calculators, field of view simulation, star chart, etc.
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Registax astronomie.be
Planetary image processing with wavelet sharpening and frame stacking.
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AstroDMx Capture astrodmx-capture.org.uk
Cross-platform capture software for planetary, lunar, and solar imaging.
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Astrobin astrobin.com
Social image hosting dedicated to astrophotography.
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Autoguiding astrobackyard.com
An introduction to auto-guiding.
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Processing Methods Under PixInsight astro-photographie.fr
An extensive collection of workflow diagrams for image processing in PixInsight. It covers both one-shot and monochrome cameras. A great resource for beginners and advanced users alike.
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Telescope Live app.telescope.live
Online access to a global network of 10 robotic telescopes with an ever-increasing image archive.
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Astrobin's Heatmap of the Sky app.astrobin.com
An inspiring map showing the parts of the sky that the community on Astrobin photographs the most (or least).
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The 750 Best Deep Sky Objects (Reachable from the Northern Hemisphere) app.astrobin.com
A simplified tool to help astrophotographers easily find targets on any night of the year.
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Cartes du Ciel ap-i.net
Cross-platform and free sky charts.
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RGB Stars From Narrowband Data aiastro.wordpress.com
Narrowband palettes such as SHO, HOO, etc. produce uncalibrated stars. One way to fix star color is to shoot also in RGB, then blend. In this article, Alberto Ibañez suggests another approach that uses the already acquired narrowband data to achieve the same.
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