RC Astro has new digs!
Welcome to the new RC Astro website! We’re very excited to bring this new site to all RC Astro customers. The old site dated back to the early 2000’s and was badly in need of a refresh. No matter when…
Russell Croman
Video: What is Deconvolution?
Deconvolution does not add detail to an image or increase its resolution. All any deconvolution algorithm does – or tries its best to do – is to restore contrast to existing detail in an image. In this video from May 7th, 2023…
GradientXTerminator 1.6.0 Release
GradientXTerminator 1.6.0 has been released. In terms of features, this is a minor update: 32-bit RGB and greyscale image processing has been enabled when using GradientXTerminator with Affinity Photo. NOTE: Affinity Photo has a bug in its implementation of the…
Drizzle plus deconvolution: a killer combination
Drizzle is a technique for combining multiple exposures of the same scene that can recover resolution lost to undersampling. That’s the theory, anyway, and it does do what is says on the tin, but there is a problem: the recovered…
StarXTerminator Version 2/AI 11 Release Notes
StarXTerminator 2.0 with AI version 11 is now released for both PixInsight and Photoshop/Affinity Photo, and is available for download. This is a major update with the following changes: PixInsight-specific changes: Photoshop-specific changes: Updating PixInsight PixInsight updates should be automatic…
Video: AI for Astrophotography
What is AI? What is a neural network? In this presentation from the 2022 Advanced Imaging Conference I give both a high-level and low-level, nuts and bolts view of these powerful mathematical engines. Posted by gracious permission from the board…