We are three astrophotographers from Turkey.Mustafa Aydın (instagram.com/aydinmustafa)

As astro imagers, we’ve all targeted beautiful, symmetrical spiral galaxies to image and process.

Do you notice those black lines in some of your data? Ever wonder if there is an easy way to get rid of them?

Black is black. But not quite, really.

The latest release of Astro Pixel Processor (APP), V1.083 beta 2, features a star reducer tool that helps to quickly reduce or remove bright stars in astro-images, to better bring out nebulas or faint details in general. 

For those of us who use One Shot Color CCD, CMOS or DSLR cameras to image, we have to deal with a process called Debayering.