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DIY focuser
www.webtreatz.com/index.php/projects/39-electronic-projects/52-open-focus-autofocus-diy-style
An excellent site with a wealth of information and even his software is open source.
Posted December 2, 2010 at 7:41 PM
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The Universes Colors
www.astrophoto-sv.com/index.php?p=1_5_Astro-DIY-Projects
A couple DIY projects , an in camera peltier cooling mod for a 350D one of them.
Posted December 22, 2010 at 6:48 PM
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Sony hack
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz4FsC76jbs
A great video on modifying a Sony point and shoot for astro use at prime focus.
Posted December 2, 2010 at 7:48 PM
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EQMOD videos
www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BB117AE85EB6BF04
All the how to videos for EQMOD
Posted December 2, 2010 at 8:08 PM
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DIY star tracker
www.diyphotography.net/create-wonderful-astrophotography-images-with-a-diy-star-tracker
Also known as a barn door tracker this will let you do AP at a basic level with a lens.
Posted December 3, 2010 at 6:02 PM
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DIY chair, wedge,etc
www.shoestringastronomy.com/diy/diy.htm
Some older DIY projects by one of the original DIY AP guys.
Posted December 3, 2010 at 6:07 PM
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DIY projects
astro.neutral.org/eq/eq.html
Some general DIY projects.
Posted December 3, 2010 at 8:13 PM
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Astronomy Mark
www.astronomymark.com/?page_id=178
This guy has some great DIY projects like motorizing a filter wheel.
Posted February 8, 2011 at 9:18 PM
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Canon 450D Direct Cooling Mod
dt-space.co.uk/CoolCam450D/
An excellent DIY project with lots of pics and descriptions.
Posted April 14, 2011 at 2:00 AM
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DIY camera mods
filiplolic.com/category/elektronika/
A couple of neat camera projects , a very well done cooled 450D as one of them. Requires translating the page though.
Posted July 2, 2011 at 5:28 PM
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Motorized polar alignement mod
randombio.com/mount.html
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.
Posted August 28, 2012 at 10:15 PM
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Astronomy Asylum
www.astronomyasylum.com/index.html
Another great site with lots of DIY builds.
Posted January 30, 2013 at 1:21 AM
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Photoshop walkthrough
www.mistisoftware.com/astronomy/Process_m63.htm
An oldie but a goodie , well put together walkthrough using Photoshop.
Posted January 7, 2011 at 9:53 PM
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Astropix
www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/TOC_AP.HTM
Jerry Lodriguss web site which has a wealth of info on almost every aspect of this hobby and very well laid out.
Posted October 31, 2010 at 10:39 PM
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Noise Inverse Masks (Photoshop) video tutorial
www.lightbuckets.com/support_videos.php
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.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 12:22 PM
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Video tutorials
www.atalas.net/index.php?option=com_expose&Itemid=4
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.
Posted December 24, 2010 at 7:30 AM
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More video tutorials
starizona.com/acb/downloads/videos.aspx
Some processing and other kinds of video tutorials on Starizona.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 11:23 AM
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Processing tips
bf-astro.com/imageProcessing.htm
Some tricks and useful info like stretching with curves.
Posted December 2, 2010 at 8:10 PM
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IP4AP
www.ip4ap.com/freetutorials.htm
Image Processing 4 Astro Photography free video tutorials.
Posted December 25, 2010 at 10:09 AM
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Annies Astro processing tutorial videos
www.eprisephoto.com/videos
Some excellent video tutorials for processing in Photoshop.
Posted July 2, 2011 at 5:17 PM
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More Processing tutorials
www.sgastrophotography.com/Sgastrophotography/Articles.html
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.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM
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Dick Locke processing techniques
www.dl-digital.com/astrophoto/p2-astro/Astro-Workflow.htm
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.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 11:43 AM
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Starizona Ha+RGB processing
starizona.com/acb/ccd/software/ps_hargb.aspx
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.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 9:49 AM
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Bi-color narrowband processing
www.starrywonders.com/bicolortechniquenew.html
Steve Cannistras method of blending two colors of narrowband in Photoshop.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 12:27 PM
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Advanced processing techniques
schursastrophotography.com/articles.html
Some AIC presentations from Chris Schur
Posted October 23, 2010 at 12:08 PM
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AIC presentation on image capture
www.ewellobservatory.com/bestpractices/
Some great little tricks on how to get the most out of capturing your data.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 12:25 PM
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Ken Crawfords advanced techniques
www.imagingdeepsky.com/Presentations.html
Some very helpful and advanced techniques for processing in Photoshop.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM
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Pixinsight video tutorials
www.harrysastroshed.com/pixinsighthome.html
The easiest tutorials I have found for Pixinsight which is a very daunting program at first , I would have been lost without these.
Posted October 23, 2010 at 12:49 PM
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Canon live view as a webcam
sweiller.free.fr/Canon40D/Canon40D-webcam.htm
A great way to do planetary work with a DSLR
Posted November 21, 2011 at 9:29 PM
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Fitswork tutorial
intervalometer.appspot.com/Fitswork.jsp
A well put together walkthrough of how to use this free processing program.
Posted December 8, 2011 at 10:23 PM
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Scott Rosen processing
www.astronomersdoitinthedark.com/dslr_llrgb_tutorial.php
A processing walkthrough and video that have some great tips.
Posted June 14, 2012 at 1:44 AM
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Noels actions
www.prodigitalsoftware.com/Astronomy_Tools_For_Full_Version.html
One of the best values out there for AP , gives you some great little tricks to use in Photoshop.
Posted October 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM
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Peters actions
petersastro.50webs.com/home.html
Some of these are repeats of Noels actions but there also some that just makes things easier , another great value.
Posted October 29, 2010 at 9:48 PM
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Astro Anarchy
astroanarchy.blogspot.com/search/label/PS-actions
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.
Posted October 29, 2010 at 9:58 PM
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Troys actions
troypiggo.blogspot.com/2010/11/troys-astro-actions.html
Another set of actions for photoshop , also free.
Posted January 11, 2011 at 7:54 AM
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GradientXterminator
www.rc-astro.com/resources/GradientXTerminator/
I use this plug in on everyone of my photos , takes out gradients and balances the background color in one click. Another great value.
Posted October 29, 2010 at 10:01 PM
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Deep Sky Colors
blog.deepskycolors.com/tools.html
Here are some more free plug-ins from Rogelio that are very helpful , especially HVLG
Posted October 29, 2010 at 10:05 PM
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BackyardEOS
backyardeos.binaryrivers.com/home
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.
Posted December 7, 2010 at 4:32 PM
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Deep Sky Stacker
deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
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.
Posted December 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM
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Dark Library
members.shaw.ca/cdndob/dark_library_v18_noinstaller.zip
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.
Posted December 19, 2010 at 5:55 PM
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Astrophoto Object Selector
www.hrastro.com/astrophoto_object_suggest_tool/
Very helpful little tool to help plan your night.
Posted February 11, 2011 at 8:37 PM
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Dark Master
sourceforge.net/projects/darkmaster/
Another program that matches darks from a DSLR in temperature to Deep Sky Stacker for better calibration.
Posted April 4, 2012 at 2:09 AM
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Mount review
lambermont.dyndns.org/astro/pe.html
An extensive list of mounts and there cost to Periodic Error performance.
Posted January 31, 2011 at 9:50 PM
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Astro lenses
translate.google.com/translate... (more)
A lot of lenses tested for AP use.
Posted October 14, 2011 at 2:32 AM
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