Join me for a quick astro live stream. youtube.com/live/17yDp_G... #astronomy #astrophotography

Coming soon, a script to reveal all details of your images.

I've been experimenting with my S24 to capture the milky way. I'm skeptical of Samsung's ability to take a picture of it using its camera app. I'm just not sure how much of it is AI enhancement. So, I used a separate app with all the AI features turned off to take raw images. I stacked them in Siril

A 1 hour time lapse of the Milky Way taken with my S24 phone (raw images using the ProShot App) in Bortle 5 skies. A motion sensing flood light kept turning on, unfortunately. I think bugs were flying in front of the sensor. Processed in @siril.org with flats and darks #astrophotography #milkyway

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Every now and then, I see discussions about colors in astro photos. Are they real? A video I made on this a couple years ago has a surprising answer: all color everywhere is fake! It's the second video in a series. There's cognitive science to back it up! :) youtu.be/VIhngr6nxk4?...

I dunno, I just want right and wrong to matter again.

Dark Shark Nebula taken with the Askar 91F. Only 82 mins of integration time from a Bortle 3 location. Video about the telescope: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YRd... #astronomy #astrophotography #space #nebula

New Gear #astrophotography

This was a fun video I made a few months back. I ran some simulations, and I showed how SNR decreases for each pixel (i.e., the signal and noise of each pixel decreases; the net effect is lower SNR). #astrophotography youtu.be/lnyrLQEgoc4

I'm Glad We're Here. #Astrophotography

Do you want to use Siril to stack astro images, but are afraid of scripts? How about Sirilic? The latest version *mostly* works with the Beta versions of Siril. At least, it still does what I want it to do :) @siril.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEbZ...

Oh... and apparently, I made another video on how to process Andromeda in @siril.org and @gimpofficial.bsky.social (It's been pretty cloudy for the past couple weeks, so I had the time) youtu.be/0Ft8_TO-Gw4

Do you want to use Siril to stack astro images, but are afraid of scripts? How about Sirilic? The latest version *mostly* works with the Beta versions of Siril. At least, it still does what I want it to do :) @siril.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEbZ...

M27 — The Dumbbell Nebula First planetary nebula, discovered by Charles Messier 1764. 1,360 LY 49 h 35 min LRGBSHO @celestronuniverse.bsky.social EdgeHD 8 ​⁠Player One Artemis-M Pro Optolong Svbony Astroasis @skywatcherusa.bsky.social HEQ5 Pro #astrophotography #DSO @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

New video! youtu.be/ib2ty3n6VFc

I'm not sure if you know Ben from the Narrowband Channel, but he was diagnosed with cancer a couple years ago. If you have the means, I'm sure he would appreciate any support you could give him and his family. gofund.me/42e8f199

(I should also mention that each of the images is around 700-800 frames out of 1000, which according to the Astro Imaging Channel's presentation on BiggSky helps with the deconvolution) #astronomy #luckyimaging

The moon from a couple nights ago taken with my C8 and 294MM camera. Around 800 frames stacked in Autostakkert. Processed in BiggSky and @gimpofficial.bsky.social #moon @celestronuniverse.bsky.social

You can estimate where the noise is coming from now in my SNR calculator app: youtu.be/d1Xccig6Jl8

What are your favorite noise reduction tools for astrophotography? Here is one of my favorites: youtu.be/BvDHKruxb9Q

What is one of my favorite noise reduction tools? It's not AI. It's free. It can be used in Gimp, Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Can you guess what it is?

I am so behind on my processing. This is about 20 hours of HaRGB data, first iteration of processing. I may go back and tweak it. Maybe the colors are off. What do you think? Should be an easy solve for @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social, I hope!

New video :) youtu.be/n-7M9ClSUkQ

Tomorrow, I'll be publishing a video with some less-known tips for astrophotography :)

What is astro AI doing, anyway? How much do we really know? My latest video is out now. I don't have all the answers, and I hope you'll add to the discussion! youtu.be/YK8tOSWfugI

This is a good watch for all interested in #astrophotography

What started out as "just a simple video" about what we know regarding AI deconvolution turned out to be a bigger project than I intended. I'll be publishing it tomorrow evening for the public.

1/8 Alright. So. I know it's been a while. But... ahem... Um... Well, I've been working on AstroSharp for a while, trying to improve the tool and make it comparable to BlurX and Cosmic Clarity.

Shot Noise is Weird... Because the measurement is based on the number of measurements you're measuring! youtu.be/lnyrLQEgoc4

Tomorrow, things get weird. A video will be coming out on shot noise. Hope you watch!

Here’s some cropped in shots from my last post of Hickson 68 #astrophotography #galaxy #hickson68

Here's the video just in case. youtu.be/t68DsXLESh0

Planetary Imaging with a Raspberry Pi? You bet! It actually works surprisingly well with an M.2 Hat. I've been doing some imaging tonight, and below are the stats. Video I did about it is here from a few months back: youtu.be/t68DsXLESh0

On this day, the day after March 31, I have proven that you don't need a telescope anymore. AI pictures of space are real, actually. youtu.be/XdeN_ZT1wpQ

This is my edit of the galaxy I asked my viewers to process. @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social already solved it, but just in case!

I challenged my viewers a couple months back to process my data without AI tools. Here is the final video of the series where I announce the winner. Plus, I share some thoughts on other submissions :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O35...

A neat short I made about measuring the Earth's shadow during a lunar eclipse: www.youtube.com/shorts/iZWYr...

Need space to keep your photos of space? Get a raspberry pi :) youtu.be/vXFoYeQYrJs

I'm wondering if @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social can solve a screenshot of a the target I'm currently imaging? (I'm guessing it will succeed)

Lovely

It's so refreshing to be on a social media site without advertisements. I wonder how long this will last.

This is the result of ~30 hours of total exposure time, and was my first edit using only @siril.org and Gimp (no AI tools). I usually process things like 3 times. But, I've since processed it 2 more times, but didn't like the results as much. I'm not complaining! Just surprised at the first edit!