Astrophoto processing

Over the past few months, I have processed numerous astrophotography photos and videos and I like to think that I made some progress. So to test that, I decided to take 2 old pictures that I thought were not very well processed and see how much I can improve now. The results are visible in the gallery below with left the old and right the new images.

The first image I re-processed resulted in a slight improvement. Not much improvement in the details, but the overall image is more natural because I was less aggressive with the enhancement tools. To my surprise, I managed to get a lot more detail out of the iphone jupiter photo. I had to push the sliders quite far as the details in the original image are very, very vague. Unfortunately this also amplified some noise, but I really like the image 🙂

 

Help! My weather is broken

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The weather hasn’t changed since last thursday. It has been stuck on rain, wind and clouds. Not very telescope friendly and apart from that, it is extremely hard to decide the right clothes for a comfortable day. Some days it’s downright chilly and 2 hours later the sun decides to wake up and make it really hot and muggy, while another 2 hours later it’s cold again. Where can I file a complaint?

Also… Penguins!!!!