Processing Techniques Invented for Small Telescopes

Above: The lunar surface is processed using digital analog techniques to bring out the discovery and mapping locations of highly specific lunar formations. New invented techniques can increase the performance of small telescopes making their data yield larger than normal. The detection of hot lava flows or the scope and locations of large and small Maria are now within the range of significant studies, for example. Color can be helpful in identifying a commonality of certain features. On the other hand, many points of interest can be extracted from Mare Crisium using identification colors and techniques.

Processing Techniques Invented for Small Telescopes
Mike Otis has invented and perfected a number of techniques to increase the performance and processing yield of small telescopes

AMPING - Amplification of telescope diameter, telescope apertures are electronically increased by factors of ten and one hundred

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TRANSDIGILOG - Transitional Digital & Analog processing

ARTISTIC CREATIVE SCIENTIFIC ASTRO PROCESSING - ASAP
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2022/05/artistic-creative-scientific-astro.html

TRANSIS - Transitioning Art in Science

ASTRO SCALING INFERENCE
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2022/05/acuter-mak-60-observations.html

DIGITAL FLASHING - Digital images are treated like the retro film technique that applied a flash of light to the film to increase the density for the detection of faint and dim celestial objects.

DIGITAL FILTERS - Filters are made with numbers that dial in highly specific spectroscopic ranges using photo computer image processing

SPECTROSCOPIC DIGITAL FILM - make your own "digital" spectral film by selecting the desired spectral characteristics using modern day filters and/or digital computer image processing.

MAGIC GLASS - technique allows the shooting of telescope images through window glass, subtracts window glass from the image, and the subtraction of aberrations, electronically removed.

PENETRATOR

A city setting has a lot of pollution that did not exist years ago. Strip away some layers of water vapor from thin clouds, light pollution, haze, fog, smog, and air pollution using these techniques.

Small Telescope Fun

Having Fun with Small Telescopes
Not every image taken with a small telescope will reveal detail like the Hubble Space Telescope but you can do the next best thing by processing your photos in new, unique, and artistically creative ways. Left: original image. Below: Enhanced

Take for example this original image of the Moon (at top), captured with a small plastic telescope at 4-inch aperture. At first glance, there's not much useful information visible and the photo is overall dark and gloomy, but what if we could have some fun and extract more data from our favorite crater Ptolemaeus?

The crater Lyot is barely shown but what if image processing could enhance it and show more, introducing shadow depressions and more detail inside the giant crater? And to boot, let's add some pizazz with creativing lighting and color flares to make it interesting and fun. The second image shows those results. A lot of detail appears inside Ptolemaeus and the entire terminator is more pronounced with new features visible. Lyot crater is clearly visible along with more terminator details. To process the image, I first used Apple Mac OS system software Photos to base enhance the image. A second program Photoscape X was used for refinement and special effects, light flares, color, enhancements and framing.

CAPTURE THE ENTIRE MOON

At left is the original gibbous Moon image taken with the same telescope. The image is small and lacks the clarity of lunar features. In the next image, the Moon is having a bout of processing with Photoscape X to increase image scale and bring out the clarity of features.

So next time out, get creative and have a ton of fun with your small telescope!