Astrophotography Image Processing

Noise reduction smooths the grainy background of a stretched astrophoto while protecting the faint structure and stars you worked to…

PixInsight and Siril are the two processing tools most deep-sky imagers end up choosing between. The short answer: Siril is…

Astrophotography processing is where a night of data becomes an image. A single raw sub-exposure of a galaxy looks like…

Stacking is how astrophotographers beat noise: you align many exposures of the same target and combine them so random noise…

Sharpening recovers fine detail that seeing, tracking error, and your optics blurred away. It comes in two very different forms:…

Color calibration sets a physically honest white balance so your galaxies, stars, and nebulae show true color instead of a…