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ASTROSURFACE free software

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Has anyone tried the free software Astrosurface?. It is great and your should give a go. Lots of features for solar imaging (wavelets, deconvolution...)

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yes, I use it, the processing is faster and of very good quality

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I’ll check it out. Thanks!


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Hello Pedro,
I use it for planetary imaging. There is a lot of flexibility in deconvolution / wavelet / noise filtering.


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Pedro:
Thanks, I will try it.
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I tried it today and it is great. It does almost everything (align, stack, post-processing...)


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Thanks for the heads up! I'll leave here for a couple of days to get some coverage then move it to the software section.


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Dear all,
I am also looking at this software (there is a thread on this on Cloudy nights forum) and I will going to try it out.
May I use this opportunity to ask what is your approach with LR deconvolution versus wavelets/unsharp masking?
In the tutorial of this software it says to use the deconvolution only as a possible after the wavelets. The same is suggested in the wonderful solar astronomy book edited by Christian. On the other hand, in the ImPPG tutorial it says the opposite, with the deconvolution being applied as first step and possibly followed by a little of unsharp masking. What is your philosophy?
Thanks a lot and sorry for the slight off topic.
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daniele_bonfiglio wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 6:16 am Dear all,
I am also looking at this software (there is a thread on this on Cloudy nights forum) and I will going to try it out.
May I use this opportunity to ask what is your approach with LR deconvolution versus wavelets/unsharp masking?
In the tutorial of this software it says to use the deconvolution only as a possible after the wavelets. The same is suggested in the wonderful solar astronomy book edited by Christian. On the other hand, in the ImPPG tutorial it says the opposite, with the deconvolution being applied as first step and possibly followed by a little of unsharp masking. What is your philosophy?
Thanks a lot and sorry for the slight off topic.
Best, Daniele
I always used deconvolution prior to other sharpening techniques. This is based on my prior workflow from DSO imaging.


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I agree. I also use deconvolution before any other sharpening techniques. Astrosurface is a good option but I use mainly other softs, mainly IMPPG for HR imaging

Mark: you can move this thread to the software section... sorry


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Hello,

I had already made a thread on astrosurface ;)

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daniele_bonfiglio wrote: Tue Mar 01, 2022 6:16 am Dear all,
I am also looking at this software (there is a thread on this on Cloudy nights forum) and I will going to try it out.
May I use this opportunity to ask what is your approach with LR deconvolution versus wavelets/unsharp masking?
In the tutorial of this software it says to use the deconvolution only as a possible after the wavelets. The same is suggested in the wonderful solar astronomy book edited by Christian. On the other hand, in the ImPPG tutorial it says the opposite, with the deconvolution being applied as first step and possibly followed by a little of unsharp masking. What is your philosophy?
Thanks a lot and sorry for the slight off topic.
Best, Daniele
Daniele,

I've always had the best results first doing LR deconvolution using Astra Image, then tweeking with unsharp masking in either PS or Astra Image.

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