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Matt Jan 23, 2023

My last post was an #astrophotography image where I framed the Heart and Soul #nebula together with the Double-Cluster. The purpose of that shot was primarily to collect new data to correct the star field for a poor imaging session I had previously where the #Comet C/2017 T2 PanSTARRS was passing through this frame. It was windy and very cold & I missed focus and had ugly stars.

Now thanks to modern #AI tools that can correct for these aberrations, this old data stands on its own all by itself.

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Matt

For the curious, here is the exact same raw data without the AI based star correction and deconvolution. The algorithms are trained exclusively on Astronomy images to understand and correct ideal PSFs and not “invent” detail that isn’t present in the data itself. You can really see here in this comparison how much of a difference tight and controlled stars make in a good astro-photograph