AIC 2010 Day Two
23 Oct 2010, 17:35 UTC
AIC 2010 day two is about to start. I’ll see if I’m able to live blog the event through the WordPress iPad app.
Update 10:15am PDT
Excellent morning sessions so far. Russ Croman received the Hubble award and went through a processing example. The key points I took away: The darker your sky, the longer your exposure time. A dark location challenges you to go very long to really get depth in the image. He also discards one half to two thirds of his data, keeping only the best frames.
Rogelio Bernal Andreo gave an excellent talk on wide field processing in PixInsight. It was good to hear about something besides Photoshop. He emphasized the need ton make the basic steps on an image (e.g., gradient removal) on the linear image. He also made great use of wavelets to do multi-scale processing. For example, retaining layers 1 and 2 to only capture the small stars.
Update 1:00pm PDT
Todd Klaus of NASA’s Kepler mission gave a great presentation on the instruments and data gathering process of this planet-finding mission. The data calibration process is really impressive as they pull multiple layers of noise away from the data.
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