Artistic Creative Scientific Astro Processing

SMALL TELESCOPES GO WILD

Artistic Creative Scientific Astro Processing
In analyzing Moon observations with small telescopes, Otis introduces an artistic creative scientific astro processing technique to bring out highly detailed features on the lunar surface for extended analysis.

Obtain the drawing or image through the small telescope and begin masticating the image. Apply basic enhancements for bright, dark, grain removal, color enhancement, and smoothing as needed. Transform the image to identify specific like-features  using transformations. If like-features are to be identified, assign color. If they aggregate within Maria, turn the Maria dark.

Venus Jupiter Conjunction

 
INDOOR ASTRONOMY

Venus Jupiter Planetary Conjunction

The planets moved closer when the sky was raining and overcast for two weeks. During some partial clearing on the morning of Thursday, May 12, 2022, both Venus and Jupiter made an appearance. Jupiter, at right, was up around 30 degrees in altitude at 4:48 when this photo was taken from indoors with a mobile phone - Apple iPhone XS Max 4.25mm f/1.8 ISO500 1/30 second exposure. The photo was processed with multiple software and Apple iMax Catalina to remove window glass.

All Four Planets

Depiction: Facing southeast, all four planets in the current conjunction - this depiction shows the view to the right of the photo above, seen are two more planets - Mars and Saturn. These are currently around a half year or more from opposition and very dim, and were seen popping in and out of view through the moving clouds and haze. Light pollution and upper atmospheric haze is seasonal and is very heavy in this region of urban astronomy and can obliterate objects as bright as zero magnitude. From lower left to upper right - Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn. The diameter of the objects simulates the approximate brightness in magnitude.  Approximate color is also added.

Astroimage Processsing with the Nexstar 6SE

 

Advanced AstroImage Processsing with the Nexstar 6SE by Mike Otis at the New NTO Nexstar Telescope Observatory

One invented technique by the author takes both digital and analog to create a new advanced and enhanced representation of the COSMOS that vastly outstrips the original in many technical aspects of imaging. This employs more than one method of image processing. The image shown above is taken with a Celestron Nexstar 6SE telescope in the nebulosity area of the constellation Orion where stars are born and vasts wisps of red hydrogen fill the vastness of space and time.

Techniques used are amping, a method to amplify the overall diameter of the telescope by a factor 10x and 100x, and the technique that takes the digital and combines it with the analog reminiscent of old school spectroscopic film only with the added enhancement of color. This first acquired image was shot in the throes of light pollution, upper atmospheric haze, and air pollution. These elements are subtracted out from the image to restore the clarity of the Universe with stunning success. This special occasion marks first light for the depths of deep sky Universe with the Celestron Nexstar 6SE telescope. The image is toying with the first result of additional amping to convert 6-inch diameter into 60-inch diameter, and some enhancements took it all the way up to 600-inch diameter for mind boggling incredible results.

Moon Image Shows Potential Base Site

Moon Image Shows Potential Base Site
The bright spot marks the potential lunar base site for a lunar landing mission by SPACE1 and Humanoido. Full Moon image captured with a C14 Edge-HD, CGX-L, iPhone camera and color processing.

https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-case-for-moon-colony.html