Polishing up your astro images

In-phone apps and advanced programs to hone your smartphone shots

In astrophotography the image captured by the camera is rarely the final version and you’ll no doubt want to tweak pictures you’ve snapped with your smartphone too. You can of course bring your shots into your chosen image editor on your computer for sharpening, level and curve adjustments and colour balancing, but there are also apps such as Snapseed and Adobe Lightroom CC which let you make tweaks on your device. For more advanced work such as noise reduction – often needed with smartphone images – a program like Photoshop or GIMP on your computer is the tool to go for. If you intend to make a mosaic of the lunar surface, using multiple overlapping shots captured with your phone looking down the eyepiece of a scope, you’ll need a…

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