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Astrophotography Tutorial – Deep Sky Image Processing with Photoshop

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Deep Sky Image Processing with DeepSKyStacker and Adobe Photoshop.

In this Deep Sky Image Processing Tutorial, I go over the basics of organizing your raw image files, and stacking your light and dark frames in DeepSkyStacker. I then take the image into Adobe Photoshop for further processing and adjustments.

Download My Image Processing Guide: https://bit.ly/astro-processing

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Astrophotography Image Processing in Photoshop

The Photoshop action set I use is called: Astronomy Tools Action Set, which can be downloaded here:

http://www.prodigitalsoftware.com/Astronomy_Tools_For_Full_Version.html

Telescope Used: Explore Scientific ED80
Mount Used: Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro
Camera Used: Canon Xsi (450D) stock

For more tutorials and astrophotography tips please visit my blog: http://astrobackyard.com/