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Processing snippet: Complete processing of RAW videos in ASIVideoStack 16th Mar 2025 Steve Wainwright
Processing snippet: Stacking solar, lunar or planetary video files 15th Mar 2025 Steve Wainwright
Processing snippet: Removing background gradients in Solar images 14th Mar 2025 Steve Wainwright
Different ways of rendering H-alpha solar images 10th Mar 2025 Steve Wainwright
Using Free software 9th Feb 2025 Steve Wainwright
High resolution images 9th Jan 2025 Nicola Mackin
Reducing the effects of Hot Pixels in RawTherapee 19th Dec 2024 Steve Wainwright
The AI denoising in GraXpert 9th Dec 2024 Steve Wainwright
Details enhancement in deep sky images 7th Dec 2024 Steve Wainwright
Removing hot pixels from deep sky images 3rd Dec 2024 Steve Wainwright
Live stacking to improve the preview whilst capturing DSOs 13th Nov 2024 Nicola Mackin
Live stacking with the AstroDMx Capture camera simulator 31st Oct 2024 Nicola Mackin
Live stacking from the Altair Hypercam 553C in AstroDMx Capture 11th Oct 2024 Nicola Mackin
Live Stacking in AstroDMx Capture 9th Oct 2024 Nicola Mackin
New Narrowband Image Blending Method in Pixinsight: 8th Oct 2024 Paul Howat
Adding Ha to RGB Images 8th Oct 2024 Paul Howat
Colouring Narrowband Channels for Creative Images 8th Oct 2024 Paul Howat
Test images with a borrowed scope 30th Sep 2024 Chris Bowden
Making a tabletop Dobsonian 23rd Jul 2024 John Beer
Allsky camera results 12th May 2024 Anne Startup
Remotely controlling an imaging setup using a mini format computer 8th May 2024 Chris Bowden
First light for a ZWO Seestar S50 7th Mar 2024 Nicola Mackin
macOS Apple Silicon implementation of AstroDMx Capture 30th Jan 2024 Nicola Mackin
The Foraax palette outside of PixInsight 25th Jan 2024 Steve Wainwright
Imaging nebulae with the Altair Dualband Ha/OIII and SII/OIII filters 13th Jan 2024 Nicola Mackin
Astro Cooker free to use online image processor 30th Dec 2023 Steve Wainwright
Testing an old guide scope for Lunar imaging 22nd Nov 2023 Nicola Mackin
Artificial Intelligence in Image processing 29th Oct 2023 Steve Wainwright
A different approach to processing deep sky images. 11th Oct 2023 Steve Wainwright
The use of star removal and replacement techniques in astronomical image processing 28th Sep 2023 Steve Wainwright
Testing and using a home made electronic solar finder 21st Aug 2023 Nicola Mackin
Testing the electronic solar finder 18th Aug 2023 Steve Wainwright
Experiments with camera TEC-Fan case-cooling 13th Jul 2023 Steve Wainwright
Stacking 3 colour channels with accurate channel co-alignment in Deep Sky Stacker 7th Jun 2023 Steve Wainwright
Experimenting with the 115mm triplet APO refractor 22nd Apr 2023 Chris Bowden
New feature release of AstroDMx Capture 18th Apr 2023
First light on an old lens 11th Apr 2023 Chris Bowden
The basis of astronomical image palettes. 9th Apr 2023 Steve Wainwright
Why Flats are important in astronomical imaging 30th Mar 2023 Chris Playle
Montage of all six Narrowband Palettes 8th Mar 2023 Nicola Mackin
Tri-colour narrowband palettes with an SV605MC camera, a William optics 81mm APO refractor and AstroDMx Capture version 2 4th Mar 2023 Nicola Mackin
Release of Version 2 of AstroDMx Capture 2nd Mar 2023 Nicola Mackin
Deep Sky with Advanced AstroDMx Capture and SV605CC or SV605MC cameras. 26th Jan 2023 Nicola Mackin
Implementing and testing a prototype SV605MC mono camera 18th Jan 2023 Nicola Mackin
Remixing colour channels in an OSC Optolong LeNhance image 5th Jan 2023 Steve Wainwright
First light for AstroDMx Capture for Windows with advanced functionality 3rd Jan 2023 Nicola Mackin
Working with images from which the stars have been removed 24th Dec 2022 Steve Wainwright
Deep Sky images with AstroDMx Capture an SV605CC camera and an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED refractor 21st Nov 2022 Nicola Mackin
Combining images from different cameras 3rd Oct 2022 Nicola Mackin
Live Stacking and its history 28th Sep 2022 Nicola Mackin
Using INDI cameras with AstroDMx Capture 11th Sep 2022 Nicola Mackin
Results from AstroDMx Capture and a new OSC camera 9th Aug 2022 Nicola Mackin
Incremental progress with AstroDMx Capture and advanced functionality. 31st Jul 2022 Nicola Mackin
Mount and focus control in AstroDMx Capture 27th Jul 2022 Nicola Mackin
Mount control by AstroDMx Capture for Windows and a Raspberry Pi INDI Server 16th Jul 2022 Nicola Mackin
Controlling an AZ mount with AstroDMx Capture 14th Jul 2022 Nicola Mackin
New functionality coming to AstroDMx Capture 6th Jul 2022 Nicola Mackin
The Value of stacking images 13th Jun 2022 Steve Wainwright
Using AstroCrop software with solar data from a Panasonic Lumix DMCFZ72 Bridge camera fitted with a solar filter 20th Apr 2022
The stars of the Trapezium 15th Mar 2022 Steve Wainwright
Testing the versatility of the SV405CC OSC 8th Mar 2022 Nicola Mackin
Image rotation and derotation with an AZ mount 13th Jan 2022 Nicola Mackin
Implementing Touptek cameras inn AstroDMx Capture 20th Oct 2021 Nicola Mackin
Experiments with an LeNhance narrowband filter and AstroDMx Capture 28th Aug 2021 Nicola Mackin
Articles on Running Linux and Windows astronomy applications on a Chromebook. 2nd Aug 2021 Steve Wainwright
Russian Tux: Astronomical imaging with a Chromebook and AstroDMx Capture 7th Jul 2021 Nicola Mackin
Astronomical Imaging with a Chromebook... at last 27th Jun 2021 Nicola Mackin
The versatility of the SV305M Pro prototype camera 15th Jun 2021 Nicola Mackin
First light for the prototype SV305M Pro, monochrome USB3.0, CMOS astronomy camera 12th Jun 2021 Nicola Mackin
Things are not always the way they seem in astronomical imaging 23rd May 2021 Steve Wainwright
A cheap, fully automatic Full HD webcam as an introductory device for lunar imaging 18th May 2021 Nicola Mackin
How to set up up AstroDMx Capture for Windows and Deep Sky Stacker Live (DSSL) to work with each other and perform live-stacking of deep-sky images. 17th May 2021 Nicola Mackin
Live deep sky stacking with AstroDMx Capture for Windows and Deep Sky Stacker Live working together 8th May 2021 Nicola Mackin
Using a legacy CCD webcam with AstroDMx Capture for Linux 24th Apr 2021 Nicola Mackin
Live solar flatfield correction with AstroDMx Capture for Windows 22nd Apr 2021 Chris Bowden
Multi-star pulse-auto-guided deep sky objects with AstroDMx Capture and PHD2 8th Apr 2021 Nicola Mackin
Multi-star pulse auto-guiding using a Fedora Linux computer running an Indi server running a Celestron mount driver. 31st Mar 2021 Nicola Mackin
Combining colour and luminance data from different cameras 11th Feb 2021 Nicola Mackin
From stacking to post processing in Affinity Photo a high quality, low cost image processor. 8th Feb 2021 Nicola Mackin
AstroDMx Capture for macOS with a ZWO ASI178MC and a William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD Apochromatic refractor 17th Jan 2021 Nicola Mackin
Testing the low cost, full spectrum SV305 with AstroDMx Capture for macOS 2nd Jan 2021 Nicola Mackin
The High Quality Raspberry Pi camera as an astronomical imager 27th Dec 2020 Steve Wainwright
Star removing neural net software 21st Dec 2020 Steve Wainwright
AstroDMx Capture for Windows Released 4th Dec 2020 Nicola Mackin
Testing AstroDMx Capture for Windows and a Canon 4000D DSLR 10th Oct 2020 Nicola Mackin
Deep sky and planets; testing AstroDMx Capture for Windows 9th Oct 2020 Nicola Mackin
Release of AstroDMx Capture for macOS 28th Sep 2020 Nicola Mackin
Using an iPad as a wireless monitor to assist with telescope fine focusing using “SpaceDesk” 15th Sep 2020 Chris Bowden
AstroDMx Capture, a Raspberry Pi 4B and an SV305Pro Camera 30th Aug 2020 Nicola Mackin
More testing of USB tethered DSLR Live-View in AstroDMx Capture 9th Apr 2020 Nicola Mackin
Two important advances for AstroDMx Capture 7th Apr 2020 Nicola Mackin
Linux controlling a Windows 10 imaging laptop running AstroDMx Capture for Windows 29th Mar 2020 Nicola Mackin
Win 7 testing of AstroDMx Capture for Windows 17th Mar 2020 Nicola Mackin
First light from AstroDMx Capture for Windows 12th Mar 2020 Nicola Mackin
More tethered DSLR images with AstroDMx Capture for Linux in a Lubuntu virtual machine in a Windows 10 machine 7th Mar 2020 Nicola Mackin
Tethered DSLR imaging with AstroDMx Capture for Linux on Windows 10 in a Lubuntu Virtual Machine 4th Mar 2020 Nicola Mackin
Running AstroDMx Capture for Linux in a Lubuntu Virtual guest machine on a Windows 10 Host computer 19th Feb 2020 Steve Wainwright
Working with AviStack 10th Feb 2020 Steve Wainwright
Ethernet over mains and imaging with AstroDMx Capture for Linux and a Canon EOS 4000D 28th Oct 2019 Nicola Mackin
Mapping the Solar System from your Backyard 26th Apr 2019
Astronomical imaging with a headless Raspberry Pi and a Tablet computer, using AstroDMx Capture for Linux. 22nd Apr 2019 Nicola Mackin
First Light for AstroDMx Capture for MacOS. 21st Apr 2019 Nicola Mackin
Putting DSLR tethering into AstroDMx Capture for Linux 26th Feb 2019 Nicola Mackin
Automatic stacking with a prototype of Stacking AstroCrop for Linux 29th Jan 2019 Nicola Mackin
New maintenance release of AstroDMx Capture for Linux, including the Raspberry Pi 3 version 20th Jan 2019
AstroDMx Capture for Linux for the Raspberry Pi 3rd Dec 2018 Nicola Mackin
New version of AstroDMx Capture for Linux (0.50.1) 20th Nov 2018
Flat fields and low cost cameras 27th Sep 2018 Nicola Mackin
First Light for the implementation of the Atik 314L in AstroDMx Capture for Linux 7th Jul 2018 Nicola Mackin
SVBONY SV105 camera and Android 23rd May 2018 Steve Wainwright
SVBONY SV105 camera, a 5 inch Maksutov and a Chromebook 21st May 2018 Steve Wainwright
Testing the SVBONY version of the low cost T7 High speed camera with AstroDMx Capture for Linux 15th May 2018 Steve Wainwright
More tests with an SVBONY SV105 £35 camera and AstroDMx Capture for Linux. 20th Apr 2018 Nicola Mackin
Deep sky tests with a Bresser Messier AR-102XS ED refractor, a QHY5L-ll-M and AstroDMx Capture for Linux 19th Apr 2018 Nicola Mackin
New release (0.10.2.0) of AstroDMx Capture for Linux 20th Mar 2018
More tests with a Sweex WC035V2 VGA CMOS webcam costing less than £8 20th Mar 2018
Sweex WC035V2 webcam tested as a lunar imager 7th Feb 2018
Raspberry Pi Zero and Pi 3 with camera modules as prime focus lunacams 30th Jan 2018 Steve Wainwright
Raspberry Pi Camera module, a Skymax 127 and Tycho 6th Jan 2018 Steve Wainwright
First light for a Raspberry Pi camera module with a Raspberry Pi 3 28th Dec 2017
A full imaging session with a Raspberry Pi, a DMK and an 80mm refractor 8th May 2017 Nicola Mackin
First light for the Astro Raspberry Pi 2nd May 2017 Nicola Mackin
Off chip integration and the synthesis of long exposures in combination with on chip intergation with a DMK 26th Mar 2017 Nicola Mackin
ToUcam imaging under Linux 13th Mar 2017 Nicola Mackin
AstroDMx Capture new GUI 10th Oct 2016 Steve Wainwright
Automatic Colour Alignment processor AutoCAP running in Wine under Fedora Linux 3rd Sep 2016 Andrew Sprott
AstroCrop for Linux 2nd Sep 2016 Steve Wainwright
AstroCrop for Linux 1st Sep 2016 Steve Wainwright
New Online Astronomical Magazine: NEW SCOPE 1st Sep 2016 Steve Wainwright
The Atik Infinity CCD camera 25th Aug 2016 Steve Wainwright
DMK 21AU04 Linux trials 17th Apr 2016 Steve Wainwright
Webcam imaging with Linux 21st Mar 2016 Steve Wainwright
Mary Spicer's Astronomy Page: a valuable astronomical resource 2nd Mar 2016 Steve Wainwright
Article on Astrocrop, registering and precise cropping software 20th Dec 2015
Images from an 114LCM catadioptric Newtonian 2nd Sep 2015 Steve Wainwright
A low cost introduction to the brighter deep-sky objects such as M17 9th Aug 2015 Steve Wainwright
Deep sky imaging with a 150mm AZ GOTO Newtonian. 7th Aug 2015 Steve Wainwright
Cropping with precision 15th Sep 2013 Steve Wainwright
The Need for Precise Image Cropping 15th Sep 2013 Steve Wainwright
A small Deep Sky compendium 21st Dec 2012 Nicola Mackin
More afocal progress 14th Apr 2012 Ken Shepherd
Experimental Deep-Sky imaging with an afocally mounted compact camera 27th Mar 2012 Steve Wainwright
Afocal Deep Sky with a compact camera and a 10", F/4.8 Newtonian 27th Mar 2012 Steve Wainwright
A focal reducer for the 12" LX200 1st Feb 2012 Steve Wainwright
Smart cover for the Telrad 30th Nov 2011 Steve Wainwright
First light on a newly modified solar camera 27th Aug 2011 Steve Wainwright
Experiments with a cheap 1.3Mp Dynex Webcam 11th Jun 2011 Steve Wainwright
Testing the Pentax K-x for Astro-imaging 3rd Feb 2011 Steve Wainwright
Andrew Sprott's astronomical software in 2010 20th Dec 2010
Narrowband filters and false colour images 20th Dec 2010 Nicola Mackin
Long exposure images with a modified webcam 15th Sep 2010 Steve Wainwright
A webcam new to Astronomy the Sweex WC060 HD 2nd Aug 2010 Steve Wainwright
A problem with the Merlin mount Fixed 22nd Jul 2010 Steve Wainwright
Don't underestimate a low cost compact digital camera 12th Jun 2010 Steve Wainwright
RGB images with a Mintron and a 6" f/5 achromatic refractor 15th Mar 2010 Steve Wainwright
RGB Colour Images from a Monochrome Mintron Frame-accumulating video camera 6th Mar 2010 Steve Wainwright
New test on a Pentax K-x DSLR 16th Feb 2010 Steve Wainwright
Testing a Pentax K-x DSLR 14th Feb 2010 Steve Wainwright
Developing a colour camera for deep sky Astrovideography 20th Jan 2010