No renders and no stock photographs - galaxies, nebulae, a star cluster, the Moon and the planets from ordinary captures, each processed in Akastroid.
The Andromeda Galaxy. A deep-sky stack: frames graded and calibrated, stacked, the gradient removed and the colour calibrated against catalogued 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 glowing gas and dark dust, with the Trapezium at its heart and the blue Running Man Nebula below - the stars across the field kept small and round.
The Hercules Cluster, annotated. Hundreds of thousands of stars in one globular cluster, with the annotation overlay applied in one click: 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 raises every ridge and crater rim - the part of the Moon where stacking and sharpening show the most.
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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Your own data, the same way.
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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