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.

Cropping is the technique of selecting and extracting a rectangular portion of the image and discarding the rest. This rectangular piece then represents the entire image.

We all know that many of the objects we chase around the night sky are listed as part of a catalog other than the New General Catalog (NGC) or the Index Catalog (IC).

In the past weeks I often had a discussion about what’s the „real“ color palette of narrowband imaging.