Since it is the monsoon season again, I've been thinking of writing something about astrophotography rather than actually engaging in it. Coincidentally, one of my friends sent in an article based on some scholarly work where the team was working on combining deep space photos that are general public to create more detailed photos which are comparable with the ones that are taken from the most cutting edge telescopes. This is infact, what we all do as amateur astrophotographers. However the challenge for combining images from a large number of sources lies in the fact that you don't know what conditions they were shot under and whether all of them are of comparable quality.In this research, the team managed to set up a system where it queries for popular image search services for a given object, runs the images through a 'space locationing' software to get the accurate corrdinates, stacks them and enhances the image. The researchers claim that due to the sheer number o...
An amateur's attempts at astrophotography.