DIY Astrophotography

An excellent site with a wealth of information and even his software is open source.

A couple DIY projects , an in camera peltier cooling mod for a 350D one of them.

A great video on modifying a Sony point and shoot for astro use at prime focus.

All the how to videos for EQMOD

Also known as a barn door tracker this will let you do AP at a basic level with a lens.

Some older DIY projects by one of the original DIY AP guys.

Some general DIY projects.

This guy has some great DIY projects like motorizing a filter wheel.

An excellent DIY project with lots of pics and descriptions.

A couple of neat camera projects , a very well done cooled 450D as one of them. Requires translating the page though.

I find doing it by hand easy enough but maybe when someone adds software to go with this and its automated it will be cool.

Another great site with lots of DIY builds.

An oldie but a goodie , well put together walkthrough using Photoshop.

Jerry Lodriguss web site which has a wealth of info on almost every aspect of this hobby and very well laid out.

Its the 10th video in the list. I have used this technique in many different aspects of processing and I have found the layered inverse mask a great trick and you will use it all the time not just in noise reduction but you should never use noise reduction on a whole image.

Some video Photoshop processing tutorials , right side of the home page. These are very useful and im glad he put so much time into making these.

Some processing and other kinds of video tutorials on Starizona.

Some tricks and useful info like stretching with curves.

Image Processing 4 Astro Photography free video tutorials.

Some excellent video tutorials for processing in Photoshop.

Salvatore Grasso put together a bunch of easy to read guides on processing , perfect to have open in the background when working in Photoshop and flip back and forth.

One of the pages I refer to when I need basic techniques and also info on LAB mode in Photoshop which is a great way to boost color.

This was the guide I used for a long time and still do for some targets it seems to work and others not as good.

Steve Cannistras method of blending two colors of narrowband in Photoshop.

Some AIC presentations from Chris Schur

Some great little tricks on how to get the most out of capturing your data.

Some very helpful and advanced techniques for processing in Photoshop.

The easiest tutorials I have found for Pixinsight which is a very daunting program at first , I would have been lost without these.

A great way to do planetary work with a DSLR

A well put together walkthrough of how to use this free processing program.

A processing walkthrough and video that have some great tips.

One of the best values out there for AP , gives you some great little tricks to use in Photoshop.

Some of these are repeats of Noels actions but there also some that just makes things easier , another great value.

JP Metsivainios site with some very helpful PS actions he is nice enough to give away for free , the star remove works well if you want to really boost the signal and not worry about the stars bloating and then bring them back at the end.

Another set of actions for photoshop , also free.

I use this plug in on everyone of my photos , takes out gradients and balances the background color in one click. Another great value.

Here are some more free plug-ins from Rogelio that are very helpful , especially HVLG

A new piece of software to run your Canon camera that I helped Beta test , I can recommend it fully and its an excellent value.

A free program that takes all your light frames and darks and bias etc and stacks them to give you a perfect starting point for the rest of the processing in Photoshop or similar.

An excellent program from Steve at Cloudy Nights forum that I have found invaluable and it integrates with Deep Sky Stacker which is also free , this lets you take all your darks and just put them in a folder and it searches for the closest temp matches to get accurate master darks.

Very helpful little tool to help plan your night.

Another program that matches darks from a DSLR in temperature to Deep Sky Stacker for better calibration.

An extensive list of mounts and there cost to Periodic Error performance.

A lot of lenses tested for AP use.