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£17 I spent 3 years ago

The first person to help me out with my astronomy photos was a brilliant imager, amazing photographer and friend of mine; Dave Trelfer. On his recommendation, I bought a piece of software by ProDigital Software called Astronomy Tools. That was Christmas 2014 and it’s still my go to solution for image processing with Photoshop; it’s power comes from the fact that it automates so many repetitive and time-consuming tasks without you having to learn how to do them in the first place (I have no idea how to add the colour to my Ha images, but thanks to Astronomy Tools I don’t have to!!). They keep the price down to under $22 (less than £17) which is amazing!

I use it every time I process one of my stacked images and as I learn more about how to do something new I discover that Astronomy Tools could have done it for me years ago!! Regardless of whether you are a beginner or expert, Astronomy Tools is something you should seriously consider downloading.

Gradient issues and why I wouldn’t spend $50

Light pollution, bright moons and other unwanted glow is something I’ve struggled with and the solution has never been simple. I’ve tried software and plug-ins that others have recommended to me; the most popular of which costs just under $50. A bit of research, however, lead me to a blog post called “Gradient removal when (name of software) won’t hack it”. I decided to try the software anyway and reluctantly came to the conclusion that my money was better left in my pocket.

Up until now, I’ve had to manually remove gradients, re-balance luminance and often made a complete mess of it.

ProDigital Software to the rescue!

I recently received an email from ProDigital Software promoting their new plug-in AstroFlat Pro. Having spent so much time relying on their other software, I decided to give the 15 day free trial a go and haven’t looked back! Oh My Goodness!!! It Just Works!!!!! Even better – it works with other 8BF filter-compatible image editors.

So how does it work? I haven’t the faintest idea – it just does. There are three settings you can adjust using the sliding scale and as you do so it shows the effect on your image in a preview pane. It means you can get the result you want before hitting “ok” and make minute adjustments as you go. I’ve resurrected one of my old images for this example. It’s the Witches Broom Nebula and I originally took the subs in August 2016.

The first image is how it came out after stacking, where you can see that there’s a blue/white cast to the image, and the second is once I’ve used AstroFlat Pro:

And here’s the final image after a rough balancing using Astronomy Tools:

Iphone backup extractor 2.4 portable download. You can see that all of the interference and “blue/white” cast to the image has disappeared simply by running AstroFlat Pro and that’s made processing the image so much easier and quicker giving me blacker blacks and better definition to the nebula. I even went back and re-processed my Horsehead Nebula image from 2016 (I only spent 10 minutes on it today, where I’d mucked about with it for hours originally to get anything salvaged from the data) where I’d had heat issues with my camera at the time:

Here’s what the stack looked like before I’d done anything to it (look and you’ll see that everything to the left of Alnitak – the bright central star – including around the Flame Nebula has a reddish haze to it that shouldn’t be there):

Then the best I could do in 2016:

And the results now with AstroFlat Pro:

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AstroFlat Pro hasn’t completely erased the heat marks around the Flame Nebula, but it’s certainly taken what was a lost cause section of data and made it useable. The increase in contrast on the right of the image is also great – NGC2023 (the white nebula in the middle) shows much more of its size and colour.

Two for the price of one!

Well that just about covers it – AstroFlat Pro, at $34.95 (less than £27) means I can go over all my old data and improve images as well as make sure my future captures are not troubled with unwanted light. At the time of writing this post, ProDigital Software are in the middle of a mailshot to existing customers with a special offer price for the new plug-in, so I’ve managed to spend less than the $50 asked by a competitor that only deals with one problem that AstroFlat Pro does better!!

The time that this simple to use plug-in has saved me is amazing. I cannot recommend it enough.

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