In this tutorial, Damian Peach shows us the main features of the two programs used to conduct live sessions of planetary imaging: Firecapture and AutoStakkert. Firecapture is used to capture videos of the planet, while AutoStakkert is used to pre-process these videos and create image stacks, which can then later be used to create color images.

This tutorial on using Affinity photo for image stacking the production of SHO narrowband images. For this tutorial, we will be using one of the Pro Datasets of the Rosette Nebula obtained with CHI-4 telescope.

In this video tutorial, Nik Szymanec introduces the use of Affinity Photo for astrophotography. This software is becoming increasingly adopted as a Photoshop alternative for people who don’t want to pay the Adobe subscription monthly charges. With its new version 1.9 update, Affinity Photo is an even stronger photo editing application. Available for macOS, Windows and iPad, Affinity Photo 1.9 adds many new features including astrophotography stacking.

In this tutorial, Nik Szymanek shows you how to produce stunning color images with just a few subexposures, using Photoshop. To import your FITS images into Photoshop you can use FITS Liberator.