The Astro Imaging Channel

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Hamza Touhami of Hyperion Software will describe what is needed in a night of image acquisition and how Prism Software aids the imager.

Kerry's website https://www.weatherandsky.com/ WEATHER •Clear Dark Sky – www.cleardarksky.com •The Weather Network – www.theweathernetwork.com •Environment and Cimate Change Canada – http://www.weather.ec.gc.ca •Forest fire smoke forecast - http://firesmoke.ca/ •Aurora - http://www.aurora-service.org/aurora-forecast/ * Local Aurora warnings – www.grimsbyweather.com •Satellite - https://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/, http://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu, https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/ OTHER Websites (google “light pollution maps”) •https://www.lightpollutionmap.info •http://www.cleardarksky.com •http://www.inquinamentoluminoso.it – Satellite monitoring

Download PemPro log viewer http://www.siriusimaging.com/PEMProV3/PEMProLogViewer_Setup_1.4.0.0.exe For PemPro Original https://www.ccdware.com/products/pempro/ Sirius Imaging YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWGqhOYCVEa6D9iqYpqyYag

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Eric Cole will make available a set of data for all to download and process. Those sending in results of their efforts will be invited to come explain their processing to the TAIC community.

An astroimager shows how The Sky X is useful to an astroimager.

Nick's Astrobin page https://www.astrobin.com/users/sydney/

Ron Brecher: MultiscaleLinearTransform: A Versatile Image Enhancement Tool in PixInsight Ron's website http://astrodoc.ca/ (Note, Originally Scheduled program (Greg Crinklaw, Sky Tools 4) has been postponed.)

Adam's website https://adamblockstudios.com/ Link to M42 data https://www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/workshop/#cgl

To buy Charles Bracken's book click this link https://www.amazon.com/Deep-sky-Imaging-Primer-Second/dp/0999470906/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=charles+bracken&qid=1557108117&s=gateway&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Astrophotography-Sky-Atlas-Charles-Bracken/dp/1517687802/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=charles+bracken&qid=1557108277&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Tom Bash will present information about processing Planetary images.

Bob Denny of DC-3 Software will tell us about recent developments in ASCOM, ALPACA, and ACP Our website https://www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/ ASCOM https://ascom-standards.org/Developer/Alpaca.htm Bob Denny's website https://acpx.dc3.com/

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Applying PixInsight's Advanced Pixel Math to do things like repairing image artifacts and combining Ha and (L)RGB data https://www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/ http://astrodoc.ca/

Daniel Perry (http://www.californiastars.net/ ) will present us information about batteries, connectors, and all you need to power your astroimaging rig while away from home.

We will discuss the installation and use of the QHY Polemaster. We will share the use of the Polemaster software to dail in a rough to near perfect aligment (as we mere mortals can get). We will then discuss using PHD2 to verify our polar alignment and make any adjustments needed. For chat go to our website https://www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/

Miqaela Weller tells us how to collect and process imaging data on a budget. For chat go to our website https://www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/

Molly Wakeling will demonstrate some of the beginning concepts of PixInsight. https://www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/

Some of the concepts behind Polar Alignment, and examples from PHD2 Drift Align and Polar Drift Align. Come with your questions and answers about Polar Alignment. For chat https://www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/

Open Q&A session discussing platesolving. For chat goto https://www.testing.theastroimagingchannel.com/

David Ault will present on Pixelmath in PixInsight. Presentation... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CM3WM2eS5L-F71bQ9ySKg0mtTzqXnVfs/view?usp=sharing

Capturing comet 46P with a static tripod, tracked OTA and piggy backed lens We will discuss 3 potential ways of capturing a moving target, like comet 46P. The first will be using a static tripod, camera and lens to capture a wider field view. The second will be using a traditional tracked mount and OTA to capture a closer in view of the target. Lastly we will discuss the benefit of using a piggyback mount to add a different focal length to the OTA. We will discuss the software used to obtain and image the target, track the section of the sky and lastly some of the processing done to create the slideshows. All of this will be from a relatively novice perspective. Presented by Ryan Blankenship

An open session on processing...

Gaston will present on some of his new products. https://www.innovationsforesight.com

An open session

In this session, we'll embrace the rabbit hole. We'll pick some random data and do a walkthrough of it during the session. If we get multiple people processing, we can see how everyone differs in their routines. Please feel free to chat or volunteer data.

A group discussion on SGP. Moderated by Alex McConahay

Mabula Haverkamp will demonstrate his astrophotography processing program Astro Pixel Processor. https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/

In this session we'll compare our results on the NGC7000 data. We'll discuss challenges, and the techniques we used to overcome them. Take part in the conversation on theastroimagingchannel.com

In this session, we'll walk-through a processing of Alex McConahay's data. Please download it and give it a shot. Next week, we'll compare everyone's processing. The data is available for download here... https://app.box.com/s/fzh9e4bzwa90cna2g993pmxtui2h4xuq