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 ====== Post-Processing ====== ====== Post-Processing ======
  
-Astrophotography post-processing enhances and refines images. This process involves multiple steps aimed at improving the image's visual appeal, reducing noise, and bringing out hidden details in celestial objects.+Astrophotography post-processing enhances and refines images. This process involves multiple steps aimed at improving the image's visual appeal, reducing noise, and bringing out hidden details in images of celestial objects.
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-**So what's real and what's fantasy/art?**+<fs large>**So what's real and what's fantasy/art?**</fs>
  
-You have to decide, like with any other branch of photography, “Am I a documentarian or an artist?” For a documentarian your question makes sense; if you’re an artist the question doesn’t make sense.+You have to decide, as with any other branch of photography, “Am I a documentarian or an artist?” For a documentarian your question makes sense; if you’re an artist the question doesn’t make sense.
  
 For the artist the questions is, “What is my style?” “What artistic license will I take?” and “What manipulation limits do I embrace in my work?” For the artist the questions is, “What is my style?” “What artistic license will I take?” and “What manipulation limits do I embrace in my work?”
  
-We see the same thing in landscape photography. How much post-processing do my style and my ethics allow? All B&W photography and all infrared photography are artistic because they cannot approximate what the eye sees. Astrophotography is this way, too, especially when we use filters to enhance or reject certain wavelengths of light.+We see the same thing in landscape photography. How much post-processing do my style and my ethics allow? All B&W photography and all infrared photography are artistic because they cannot approximate what the eye sees. Astrophotography is this way, too, especially when we use filters to enhance or reject certain wavelengths of light that an eye can't see.
  
  
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-Furthermore //every// jpeg file we see, even straight from a camera, has artistic decisions built into it. When you compare a jpeg from Nikon with one from Sony, Canon, or Fuji you will see differences, because some engineer/color scientist decided for each company how their color jpeg should look when they convert a “natural” raw file for human comsumption. Which one is “right?” It depends on each artist’s eye.\\  +Furthermore, //every// jpeg file we see, even straight from a camera, has artistic decisions built into it. When you compare a jpeg from Nikon with one from Sony, Canon, or Fuji you will see differences, because some engineer/color scientist decided for each company how //their// color jpeg should look when they convert a “natural” raw file for human comsumption. Which one is “right?” It depends on each artist’s eye.\\  
  
 //Glenn Sackett 2024/09/13 09:16// //Glenn Sackett 2024/09/13 09:16//
-===== Step-by-step post-processing Seestar images with free software ===== 
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-{{ youtube>lMoSAHOgbD4 }} 
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-===== Siril Tutorial -- Post-processing with Seestar script for beginners ===== 
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-[[ https://siril.org/|Download free Siril program (Mac and PC) and Seestar script]], then watch this step-by-step video 
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-{{ youtube>syCVl1fDLTk }} 
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-===== PixInsight Workflow for advanced users ===== 
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-PixInsight is expensive and inscrutable. But if you want the best out of Seestar images...  
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-==== Stack RAW subframes with WBPP (Weighted Batch Pre Processing) ==== 
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-* Click +lights to add light subs 
-  * Mixing 10, 20, and 30 second is OK. Adjust ‘Exposure tolerance’ to “20” in Post-Calibration tab 
-  * To mix UV/IR Cut and LP subs use the EmissionLineIntegration script 
-    * Integrate each set of subs separately, then register with WBPP, Background and gradient extraction color correct 
-    * Extract red channel from LP set and label Ha 
-    * Extract red channel from UV/IR set and label rub_r 
-    * Perform liner fit on Ha using rib_rf as reference 
-    * Create a star mask using StarXterminator (be careful not to let it remove bright Ha regions as if they were stars 
-    * Use EmissionLineIntegration script on the U/IR integrated image (select Ha as narrowband on channel R) 
-    * Jump to Standard Workflow 
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-* In the top tab section, click ‘lights’ 
-  * Everything should be ‘checked’ except for the last one ‘Image Integration’ this will happen separately 
-  * Presets upper right, Select ‘Maximum’ quality as your option there 
-  * Add your ‘Output Directory’ in the lower right 
-  * Purge cache, button lower right area 
-  * Change 'Subframe Weighting’ to “PSF Scale SNR” 
-* In the top tab section, click, ‘Calibration’ 
-    * If you have different exposures do these steps for both 
-    * Cosmetic Correction 
-    * Confirm CFA DeBayer Method is 'VNG' 
-* In the top tab section, click, ‘Post-Calibration’ 
-    * Combine 10, 20, 30 second exposures set 'Exposure tolerance' to "20" 
-    * Click Drizzle, use 2x for 1 hour or less, 3x or 4x for more. Set drop sizes 0,9 
-* Click ‘Run’ 
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-==== Standard workflow (YMMV) ==== 
-  * Dynamic Crop 
-  * GradientCorrection and/or DBE, ABE, Graxpert 
-  * Image Solver 
-  * SPCC 
-  * BlurXterminator 
-  * SNCR 
-  * NoiseXterminator 
-  * StarXterminator  
-  * Starless Image - GHS (GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch) 
-    * Range Mask to isolate Nebula or Galaxy 
-    * Curves for saturation 
-    * Sharpen 
-  * Stars Image - GHS 
-  * Combine starless and stars: 
-  * Tweak with Lightroom, Photoshop, GIMP was desired. 
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 *Free trial available for paid product *Free trial available for paid product
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-[[https://deepskydetail.shinyapps.io/AstroSharp/|AstroSharp]] 
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 ==== MacOS ==== ==== MacOS ====
  
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 [[ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photoshop-express-photo-editor/id331975235 | Photoshop Express ]] [[ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photoshop-express-photo-editor/id331975235 | Photoshop Express ]]
  
-[[ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/astroedit-simple-and-quick/id6478158736 | AstroEdit Simple and Quick (US$2)]]+[[ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/astroedit-simple-and-quick/id6478158736 | AstroEdit Simple and Quick (US$3)]]
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 +===== Step-by-step post-processing Seestar images with free software =====
 +
 +{{ youtube>lMoSAHOgbD4 }}
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 +
 +===== Siril Tutorial -- Post-processing with Seestar script for beginners =====
 +
 +
 +[[ https://siril.org/|Download free Siril program (Mac and PC) and Seestar script]], then watch this step-by-step video
 +
 +{{ youtube>syCVl1fDLTk }}
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 +
 +===== PixInsight Workflow for advanced users =====
 +
 +PixInsight is expensive and inscrutable. But if you want the best out of Seestar images... 
 +
 +==== Stack RAW subframes with WBPP (Weighted Batch Pre Processing) ====
 +
 +* Click +lights to add light subs
 +  * Mixing 10, 20, and 30 second is OK. Adjust ‘Exposure tolerance’ to “20” in Post-Calibration tab
 +  * To mix UV/IR Cut and LP subs use the EmissionLineIntegration script
 +    * Integrate each set of subs separately, then register with WBPP, Background and gradient extraction color correct
 +    * Extract red channel from LP set and label Ha
 +    * Extract red channel from UV/IR set and label rub_r
 +    * Perform liner fit on Ha using rib_rf as reference
 +    * Create a star mask using StarXterminator (be careful not to let it remove bright Ha regions as if they were stars
 +    * Use EmissionLineIntegration script on the U/IR integrated image (select Ha as narrowband on channel R)
 +    * Jump to Standard Workflow
 +
 +* In the top tab section, click ‘lights’
 +  * Everything should be ‘checked’ except for the last one ‘Image Integration’ this will happen separately
 +  * Presets upper right, Select ‘Maximum’ quality as your option there
 +  * Add your ‘Output Directory’ in the lower right
 +  * Purge cache, button lower right area
 +  * Change 'Subframe Weighting’ to “PSF Scale SNR”
 +* In the top tab section, click, ‘Calibration’
 +    * If you have different exposures do these steps for both
 +    * Cosmetic Correction
 +    * Confirm CFA DeBayer Method is 'VNG'
 +* In the top tab section, click, ‘Post-Calibration’
 +    * Combine 10, 20, 30 second exposures set 'Exposure tolerance' to "20"
 +    * Click Drizzle, use 2x for 1 hour or less, 3x or 4x for more. Set drop sizes 0,9
 +* Click ‘Run’
 +
 +==== Standard workflow (YMMV) ====
 +  * Dynamic Crop
 +  * GradientCorrection and/or DBE, ABE, Graxpert
 +  * Image Solver
 +  * SPCC
 +  * BlurXterminator
 +  * SNCR
 +  * NoiseXterminator
 +  * StarXterminator 
 +  * Starless Image - GHS (GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch)
 +    * Range Mask to isolate Nebula or Galaxy
 +    * Curves for saturation
 +    * Sharpen
 +  * Stars Image - GHS
 +  * Combine starless and stars:
 +  * Tweak with Lightroom, Photoshop, GIMP was desired.
 +
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