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.
While cleaning up my PC I found sequences of shots of Virgo galaxy cluster taken during springs of the last 2 years. Those were attempts to shot this object, but I was not satisfied with the result and left them.
I recently bought a pocket spectroscope for laboratory use. You can find it at Ali for 5$. It is with glass prism and well build. So I did some test to use with a telescope but did not
http://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html This is an amazing resource. Detailed atlas of all the sky with NGC and IC objects.
Reading a new product that claims to be 100x time more powerful then conventional telescope, I realise that this is just an astrograph with a digital camera that is doing stacked images and show them trought eyepiece or App.
I am so impressed with the K5 ability to quickly gather signal from nebulas (Quantum efficiency) and galaxies, so I decide to take one more K5 and to remove the IR-cut Filter of the old one.
