Image Processing (part 1)
If you thought image capture was time-consuming, image processing is just as demanding.
There is no denying, image processing is a deeply technical and time-consuming business and it is just as well that image acquisition takes as long as it does, otherwise there would be a backlog of data to process. Just as with everything else in astrophotography, there is a progressive path of sophistication and it is better to keep things simple at first and then, after mastering the basics and establishes a “feel” for things, attempt more elaborate manipulations. The image processing chapters in this book fall into three sections. In this first one, we consider aesthetics and the general image processing principles. Rather than ...
