[KSP space music, footage of the night sky]
Ever since the dawn of mankind, humanity have gazed upon the stars and wondered what is out there. But with civilization came bright lights, and it has become a lot harder to see anything with all the light pollution. Astrophotography is the answer to your calls.
[Shitty picture of the moon]
But if you’ve ever tried to take pictures of that pretty moon, you might’ve been disappointed by the results.
[anime wow SFX, image of noisy sky]
But with the help of, getting rid of pesky noise is easier than ever before!
[tripod, DSLR and smartphone]
All you need to get started, is a tripod and any type of camera. Next, you point your camera at a constellation of your choice and take a bunch of pictures. The more pictures the better, but with diminishing returns. These pictures taken on a tripod will already look a lot better, but still quite noisy.
[screenshot of project]
The next step is to put the images through [insert project name]™, to eliminate that noise.
[show orb/point detection]
Using orb detection, the program will detect stars in the image set. They’re then fed to a homographic algorithm that automatically aligns the pictures.
[animation of images getting “stacked”]
Finally the stacking process goes through every pixel and returns the average value, for each one in every location.
[show result]
The result is a clear image with a reduction in noise, ready to be exported.
[SNR calculator]
But certain that the program actually removed noise, the exported image can be run through our signal to noise ratio calculator. Then do the same for a random image from the image set. The SNR’s can then be compared to see the noise difference.
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[KSP space music, footage of the night sky] Ever since the dawn of mankind, humanity have gazed upon the stars and wondered what is out there. But with civilization came bright lights, and it has become a lot harder to see anything with all the light pollution. Astrophotography is the answer to your calls.
[Shitty picture of the moon] But if you’ve ever tried to take pictures of that pretty moon, you might’ve been disappointed by the results.
[anime wow SFX, image of noisy sky] But with the help of, getting rid of pesky noise is easier than ever before!
[tripod, DSLR and smartphone] All you need to get started, is a tripod and any type of camera. Next, you point your camera at a constellation of your choice and take a bunch of pictures. The more pictures the better, but with diminishing returns. These pictures taken on a tripod will already look a lot better, but still quite noisy.
[screenshot of project] The next step is to put the images through [insert project name]™, to eliminate that noise.
[show orb/point detection] Using orb detection, the program will detect stars in the image set. They’re then fed to a homographic algorithm that automatically aligns the pictures.
[animation of images getting “stacked”] Finally the stacking process goes through every pixel and returns the average value, for each one in every location.
[show result] The result is a clear image with a reduction in noise, ready to be exported.
[SNR calculator] But certain that the program actually removed noise, the exported image can be run through our signal to noise ratio calculator. Then do the same for a random image from the image set. The SNR’s can then be compared to see the noise difference.