Image created from raw data which was captured by the Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Images taken by the JWST are free to download and use from Nasa, and as we are in a period of the usual murky winter nights here with no chance for astrophotography, I thought I would attempt to try and improve my rudimentary astro processing skills and learn something by having a bash at this subject. The JWST captures in Infra-red, not colour, where it takes several mono images of a subject from differing wavelengths relating to the wavelengths of coloured light. So basically one is downloading several mono images of the same area that need to be processed from the astro format FITS files, each colourised, and then blended together to create a homogenised full colour image.
Credit: Nasa for using their JWST images, and as I don’t have the $10 billion for my own JWST, its very nice of Nasa to share their images with us minions!
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Ive had this itch for several years to get into astro photography, but my attempts have been a dismal failure for many reasons, not least faffing around in the cold for hours trying to do polar alignments and locating objects to photograph. So I called a halt to my attempts a couple of years ago.
But the urge didn't go, and this week I bought one of these all-in-one astro telescope thingies. It's designed for beginners, and I suspect also idiots like me. It arrived on Thursday and amazingly the following evening was clear skies, so I gave it a go.
A full moon rather inhibited light gathering of the distant nebulae, but I did manage to capture an hours worth of Orion images. Then followed it with my feeble attempts to process the FITS raw file in Siril and Photoshop.
While this image has many warts and I am sure real astro photographers will grimace while looking at it, for me, it was the first time I had ever managed to capture an astro image in a way that I had intended. If I can work the telescope and produce this then it truly is idiot proof!
Hope my Flickr pals are all well, prospering and happy.
Joe
Tags: Astro Photography M42 Orion Nebula
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30 second long exposure taken from the shore at Sandy Point, Hayling.
Tags: Sunset Long exposure Isle of Wight Hayling Island
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Now I'm on a roll - 2 posts in 2 days!
Tags: Sunrise Windmill Hill South Downs
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Long time since I last posted. Hope you are all doing well - healthy, happy and prospering.
Hey Ian R - seems I can get a snap of a Kingfisher!! :)
Joe
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