Image Processing - Examples

Deep sky images - Astro Art v 5.0 used to control the camera and acquire the images. All images dark subtracted, averaged & stretched using Astro Art. 

Planetary images - colour images below processed and sharpened using Registax. Final minor adjustments to brightness, contrast and resizing done using Paint Shop Pro (Version 8).

Jupiter, 13/01/12 17:13 UT, LH image is an average of 4,000 frames (5,800 frames were captured at 30 FPS). Processed using Registax V6. 

RH image sharpened with Registax V6. Image captured using Celestron C14 Edge HD, CGEPRO Mount, & DBK21AU04 camera with 2.5 X Powermate.

Resized 150% in Registax V6.

Saturn 17th Jan 2004, 12" F5.3 Newtonian, 2 X Barlow & 20mm Televue Plossl eyepiece, 1/33 sec exposure.

            1,000 raw images, averaged using Registax                                     Sharpened with Registax, resized in PSP. 

NGC4565 in Coma Berenices, 26/04/2003, 12" F5.3 Newtonian & MX916.

 A single raw 30 second image                       A 30 second dark frame

An average of 23, 30 second exposures (each dark subtracted), resized 120%.    Brightest adjusted, and sharpened using Maximum Entropy De-convolution

Resized again using Paint Shop Pro