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This part is still under construction. Processing the acquired raw images is done on a standard laptop and using software that has been in continuous development over the last 25 years. Starting off with a Borland Pascal program, I switched to a Windows Visual Studio C++ development environment, which I use up to this date. The program enables aligning and stacking of images and contains functions for noise filtering, sharpening and processing of LRGB images. I made myself a description of the processing steps, as a reference document. It is in Dutch and can be found here. A second program uses a catalog of celestial objects and enables me to select an object for photography that will enter the telescopes field of view at a given date and time. The object and camera/telescope/filter combination are selected based on different criteria: object declination, suitability for RGB or H-alpha, object size and magnitude, observational conditions, etc. |
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Some screenshots of the image processing program and a screenshot of the user interface of the object selection program.:
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