In this blog I have often written of color balance, vital both in Astrophotography both in nature photography and just from this I drew the inspiration to write this post. The rush to publish your processed images not check visually that the color balance is correct, for example by making under artificial lights of home…
Author: Gianni Cerrato
Summer 2016-a selection of nature shots
With the summer we’ve only had a chance to shoot beautiful pictures as we had planned to do, but also beautiful landscapes, panoramas and macro photographs, especially Valentina, I laze a little longer trying to preserve forces for the night! Please remember that we are available with a selection of photographs from us produced and…
Hundreds of black holes in a star cluster in the milky way
is the finding that took a team of researchers from the British University of Surrey and published in the monthly bulletin of the Royal Astronomy Society that could adequately explain the whims of this star cluster (globular) known as NGC6101, distant 49900 light years away and not visible in the northern hemisphere, but that belongs…
Quick Guide: how capture wide field Astrophotos with DSLR: what equipment, and how to use it!
To give practical examples to those who want to get into this kind of photos, I decided to leave the base, a shot wide field of the milky way, aiming at its zenith, which is above our heads. First we talk about the equipment you need, well, I want to emphasize that a first experiment…
Spring 2016-our photographs from the forest
Having rented a house in the Woods in the mountains has its advantages, as well as “knock off” every now and then from the problems of everyday life! Please remember that we are available with a selection of photographs from us produced and directed to exhibitions and events, at the end of this post there…
Summer 2016-our best Astrofotos
This year with the arrival of summer, it was inevitable the appointment in Corsica, we met two French photographers with whom we befriended and taught the basics of astrophotography, unfortunately only 1 week for working problems and economic and once returned we could go in the mountains of the Alps “only” 3 weekend, in our…
CCD images vs DSLR compared to the same FOV
Often use these acronyms and I will try to give the explanation but it is useful “chewing” in order to better understand all information resources available on the Web (forums/sites/chat) For FOV Field Of View means, which is the field of view, and there is for instance a weblink to calculate the field of view…
Tutorial: how I developed this photo of the milky way-updated, all three videos are now online!
To give practical examples to those who want to get into this kind of photos, I decided to leave the base, a shot wide field of the milky way, aiming at its zenith, which is above our heads. The image was created by me and Valentina on the night of July 8, 2016 to 2400…
close encounter with the asteroid 2016 QA2-resumed in an exceptional video from VirtualTelescopeProject.eu
And here is the video: What can I say, I was astonished to see the video of the transit took place on August 26, 2016 at least 84000 km from Earth and that was posted on the internet and for this I would point out, as the post that follows directly from The Virtual Telescope…
The colors of the Milky way, between reality and interpretation
You may have noticed browsing on Internet that there are many photographs of the milky way, often different from each other and with many imaginative colours, which one is the correct one? To try to do a bit of clarity, it must be said that regardless of which use a camera modified for astronomy or…
Tutorial: Deepsky Stacker (DSS) and Drizzle function
This is the complete guide to processing in Drizzle from my DSLR shots of the Veil nebula And this is a little preview of what you see on this tutorial: To purchase the tutorial, available in streaming (approximately 45 MBytes) for now, only English (as text), follow the directions below (through the platform Selz) <a…
The Drizzle, an algorithm designed for Deep Space
This feature is present in the main Astrophotography processing softwares longer in use, and to be clear, the commercials “Nebulosity” and “PixInsight” and freeware and “Deepskystacker“. What makes it special is the ability to get enlargements of the area photographed, with greater definition, without compromising it with additional noise as would happen oversampleing a 200% crop,…
a Flatfield machine Macgyver style!
Since I picked up this wonderful hobby that is 15 years after a stop of astrophotography, full in the digital age, I found myself in a new world, the guide of the pictures that was done manually with the Illuminated Reticle eyepiece has evolved in the Guide Camera for your personal computer or stand-alone, Foucault knife has…
Wind of renewal on catalogs DSO?
A few days ago a post on social network Facebook from Robert Gendler, shared by a friend , a Taiwan stargazer, has aroused my curiosity! Robert, a great American astrophotographer, posted an image created by combining shots of amateur Astrophotographers including Adam Block (known for its beautiful planetary astroimmagine especially) to the data of the Japanese Observatory…