AI noise reduction to bring a new live of the old data
As may times I said it is essential to keep all your shots over the years, as you can go back and reprocess them.
Make new discoveries or improve the resulting image quality.
I recently learn about Topaz DeNoise and get it on the black Friday :) It is artificial intelligence driven software for noise reduction.
It is not designed for Astrophotography but give good results by suppressing the noise and keep the details.
Even more, it reveals some extra details, hidden into the shadows of the noise.
I had a lot of data that I shot with crazy high ISO.
So here are some process examples of stacked data, processed without applying conventional NR. I kept this as last step with Topaz DeNoise.
You no more need large sensors and heavy equipment to do good general photos. The recent development of image sensors put silicon chip capabilities to it's limit by
Knowing what you are looking for is more then half way to achieving it. Breakthrough Listen is a SETI kind of project that listen for artificial signals from 1700 nearby stars up to 160 light years.
Some shots from Sofia. A very bright sky place. Zenith sky brightness info (2015): SQM 19.13 mag./arc sec2 Brightness 2.41 mcd/m2, Artif. bright. 2230 μcd/m2, Bortle class 6.
It is very important how you manage your data. So much shots, so much frames. They are full of hidden data that could be revealed later. The far we look the more we see. Each feint dot could be a galaxy far far way.
Nowadays we are so into the globalization and technologies, that I can submit observation plan to a remote, professional observatory at the other part of the word!
