How to do Astrophotography: Image processing Orion

[@astrospeedcuber]

This has been the most helpful tutorial I've seen so far as a beginner to astrophotography, thank you so much!

[@ProppedNutFPV]

I’m doing this on a budget so Siril and Gimp are my to go to’s. But most everything at my level is translatable. Just many more steps and bouncing back and forth between them. This will be my second Fall season. Last year’s edit had the blow out core. I think I can do this . Great video. Easy speed to follow. Now that I have the basics I can follow a video like this. Thanks

[@adityakarade8034]

Thank you again your video help me a lot and I have captured m42 430 light frames on 2 second exposure got nearly total 15 minutes exposure time and image turn into a miracle running man nebula also visible happy with your post processing tutorial help a lot

[@AVAstronomy]

You’re welcome! I’m glad you found it helpful. I’ve got some other tutorials on my channel. You might find useful as well.

[@BurgerOosthuizen]

Thanks! This is just what I needed! Awesome job.😊

[@marlapinaire944]

Thanks Aaron! Very clear and easy to follow. I will drag out some old data and re-process to see how it improves with your workflow. Well done!

[@AVAstronomy]

You’re welcome! Hope it gives your data an improved result.

[@mantownmedia78]

Very helpful - and not too fast in your explanation - I am going to retry my processing.

[@waheex]

my images were very noisy due to LP where I live but your video helped clean them up a lot. Cheers

[@nightscapejournals]

Thanks Aaron and amazingly timed - I’m just running a final set of h-alpha subs to add to a load of 180s, 30s and 15s exposures I’ve been capturing on M42 over the last week. Tomorrow I try to blend it all together, so this is a great method to try (I had no idea you could copy a layer onto a mask to create a very detailed mask - that’s genius!). Nice to have you back on the airwaves too (but no pressure - life gets busy!). 😊

[@AVAstronomy]

Sounds like a nice strategy Paul. It’s good to be back. Hoping to be putting out a lot more videos this year. Good luck with the project. Looking forward the end result.

[@avt_astro206]

Great Tutorial Aaron! Love the Image!

[@AVAstronomy]

Thank you!!

[@Tony-Elliott]

Excellent tutorial Aaron thanks for sharing your work mate

[@AVAstronomy]

You’re welcome, Tony! Glad you found it helpful.

[@siegfriednoet]

Great tutorial Aaron, thanks for sharing

[@AVAstronomy]

You’re welcome!

[@Rainy78]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing your editing skills. I will try doing it this way using my DSLR and a few lenses. Im yet to buy an astro rig. Think Im going to start with a Redcat 51 👍

[@AVAstronomy]

You’re welcome! The red cat 51 is an excellent choice!

[@RiceySpicey1]

Super useful - thanks very much!

[@suzannebeers6238]

Thanks Aaron! Great video, as always Quick quesrion... When I try to do the alt-backspace after the color picker I get a mask the color of my current color selection, not what the picker selected What am I going wrong??

[@AVAstronomy]

Hmm.. can you tell me step by step how you’re doing it and maybe I’ll be able to identify what’s a miss?

[@ВалерийИванов-ф9и]

Hello, please tell me your version of Photoshop at the time of processing

[@theoverseer4700]

For some reason I am unable to do the subtract part, any idea why?

[@GregoryOjeda-w3e]

There is NO link for Arcsin stretch

[@henrydrake1717]

Is it possible to stack stacked images in DSS?

[@AVAstronomy]

I mean, I suppose you could but don’t think there’s be much benefit. Better off just adding the additional sub frames to your imaging plan and stacking them all at once.

[@nickwilliams8524]

Great video- thank you.

[@AVAstronomy]

You’re welcome

[@adityakarade8034]

Sir i have stack Orion Nebula image from deep sky stacked in tiff format but when I load Orion Nebula into photoshop the image is load but curves are not working but with other format it work but it’s not working with tiff file what to do

[@AVAstronomy]

Hmmm… Make sure it’s in 16bit format in photoshop.

[@arielmario2952]

hello, i dont speack much english i will try to u understend me haha i have a question, i have a camera canon modificated, and the camara change filter UV IR for filter BAADER BCF1 then it filter (bcf1) take all emision H- ALPHA THEN when a take a picture of orion, my camera becouse this filter make see arion only reds and pink colors, non blue non other color. then i would like to know if i can do something about it in photoshop- i try alot things in photoshop , but its impossible, can u help me please can i send u some way my orion picture then u can see what im talking about?

[@stevenrobinsonpictures]

I am staying away from pixinsight as i feel i can produce good results with PS, what are your thoughts on it?

[@AVAstronomy]

I think the results people get with pixinsight are awesome. I’ll probably eventually use both but for now Ps works for me.

[@stevenrobinsonpictures]

@A.V.Astronomy true no denying that. Ie found starnett is good for faint dust and nebula. Lovely shots and processing keep up the work. Love your ethos.

[@stevenrobinsonpictures]

I like your workflow and use a similar one. It produces high quality results; but does not take 4 days to complete.

[@AVAstronomy]

Photoshop is definitely capable of producing high quality results. Thanks!

[@peeb2896]

Nice tutorial and nice image.... Instead of creating a layer and blah blah to get rid of the light pollution just select the grey eyepoint dropper in levels and click on a space void of stars or nebula in your image.... This will line up the histogram and your done. Using and creating a layer appears to be the long way around which is way too many steps added on. 😀

[@doka777-3]

is there another thing i can use besides photoshop

[@AVAstronomy]

Yes, there are several programs out there that you can use to process your Astro photography images. Siril, astro, pixel processor, and pixinsight to name a few.

[@doka777-3]

@@AVAstronomy thank you I will check them out.

[@MikhailProskalov]

Final image looks nice, but the processing is really needs some improvements. Firstly, its better working on an adjustment layers instead applying curves into the stacked image. Later, blending will be greater improved with blend if function. You just need to cut away the dark information from the second image

[@demej00]

I wish someone would do astrophotography without PS. Too expensive for many of us astro amateurs. I use Gimp and PhotoScape (free).

[@AVAstronomy]

@@demej00 the subscription is only $10/month. To me its worth it, but there are other good programs out there like astropixel processor. 👍🏻