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Balancing the system
Levelling and basic alignment
Accurate polar alignment
Resolving condensation
Focusing
Subject choice
Framing
Auto guiding
Exposure set up
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Calibration
NEAF 2010
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An example of basic processing using Ha filter
Home Page
About me
Equipment
My blog
Image Gallery
A Typical Night Of Imaging
Image Processing
Basic Processing 1
Basic Processing 2
Basic Processing 3
Problems and Solutions
Links
Astronomical Jokes
Narrow Band Imaging
Image Awards
Imaging by stages
NEAF 2010
Published Articles
Contact Page
Images For Sale
Talks and Workshops
Time lapse videos
Single 600 second raw image
14 subframes combined win Maxim DL
Appearance of image initially in Photoshop CS2
First use of curves
First use of levels
Second use of curves
Second use of levels
Third use of curves
For the last iteration of levels I only needed to raise the black point by 2 units so that I didn't clip the black point
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Third use of levels
Local contrast enhancement
Gradient removal
Cropping image
Final tidying up of image