First, pictures made by the people who use Akastroid. Below them, my own captures with ordinary equipment. No renders and no stock photographs.
People's images processed in Akastroid
Pictures made in Akastroid by the people who use it, on their own telescopes and cameras, shown without their names. Each one went through the app on their computer, exactly as it would on yours.
The Wizard Nebula. A smart telescope, 4,180 frames stacked.The Andromeda Galaxy. Finished in Akastroid from a smart telescope's own stacked picture.The Pelican Nebula. A smart telescope, 80 frames stacked.A gibbous Moon. An astronomy camera video, the sharpest 259 of 517 frames stacked.Copernicus. An astronomy camera video, 1,250 of 2,500 frames stacked.
These pictures belong to the people who took them. If one of them is yours and you would like it taken down, write to hello@akastroid.com.
My own captures
Galaxies, nebulae, a star cluster, the Moon and the planets, from my own captures.
The Andromeda Galaxy. A deep-sky stack: frames graded and calibrated, stacked, the gradient removed and the color calibrated against cataloged stars. The dust lanes are visible, and so are both companion galaxies, M32 and M110.
The Orion Nebula and the Running Man. The Orion Nebula's gas and dark dust, with the Trapezium in the core and the blue Running Man Nebula below. The stars across the field stay small and round.
The Hercules Cluster, annotated. The globular cluster M13 with the annotation overlay switched on. It labels the cluster, the galaxies NGC 6207 and IC 4617 beside it, and the bright stars with their magnitudes.
The Leo Triplet. Three galaxies in one field: M65 and M66 above, and NGC 3628 edge-on below with its dark dust lane running the length of it.
The Moon near first quarter. The southern limb and the terminator from one AVI capture. Frames graded, the Moon registered across the whole surface because it runs off the frame, then sharpened per scale.
A mare at the terminator. Low sunlight along the terminator picks out the ridges and crater rims. This is where stacking and sharpening make the most visible difference.
The cratered highlands. A close-up that fills almost the whole frame. With so little of the disc edge in view, the surface itself is matched from frame to frame.
The planets
Every frame of the video graded, the sharpest stacked on a grid of alignment points, dispersion corrected and sharpened per scale. Shown at their real size.
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Try it on your own data
Planets and the Moon go through the lucky imaging path, galaxies and nebulae through the deep-sky path. Free to try, nothing uploaded.
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