Astrophotography images are usually flat final images — but the stars in them are not all at the same distance.
My first PixInsight script, ParallaxStarLayers, uses GAIA data to create separate star layers by distance for parallax effects and animated presentations.
https://adfr.io/thoughts/20260624_parallaxstarlayers_pixinsight_script
New blog post!
I am back at astrophotography, and this time I can do it from my house, no need to freeze myself in the field. And so I was able to do the longest acquisition time ever for me, almost seven hours.
Spring is here so the target of choice was galaxies, but I only have a relatively wide angle lens, so I went with the Virgo Galaxy Cluster.
Editing was done in Pixinsight and GIMP, and I am wondering, how many people use Pixinsight here? What are your typical processing pipelines? Maybe we could exchange notes, I am a noob at Pix and would love to see how you edit your photos.
Anyway, I am attaching a teaser trailer here, full pic in the blog post:
Frank Adler
Voyageur
Alex
stfn