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Images taken with an Explore Scientific 80mm triplet apochromatic refractor and Canon 1000D (Kiss Digital) on a Takahashi EM-200B Equatorial Mount.

There are several programs available for the processing of astro photographs, mainly available for Windows. In Linux it is possible to run Windows based programs using Wine or Cross Over Office. A Java based program, Astrostac works out of the box. I read about HDR in a post on one of the astronomy forums and [...]

Note: imageJ cross platform image processing – Astro imaging tutorial. Further down the page some first attempts with a Canon 1000D (DSLR). Some G9 images also. RAW exposures are processed using ufraw and further enhanced to reveal more detail in GIMP. The newest images were processed from RAW files using PFStools in Linux to produce [...]