I loved the night sky since I was a child.

Those small sparkling dots captured my imagination about distant worlds and their alien inhabitants.

When I was 12 I grinded my first telescope mirror  to make the night sky come a little brighter.

With this primitive 5" F12 Telescope I first imaged the moon and planets with a hand held film camera with very little success.

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My first CCD camera was a Meade LPI which changed my world.

I learned to enhance the faint details for the 'WOW' effect when you look at an image and wish your wife let you put it on the living room wall...

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As you will see, I love to image and even more, I love image processing...

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Many times, I see nice fellow Astroimagers collect superb data with cutting edge instruments only to publish a mediocre  dull images without extracting their full potential.

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Many people can't cope with the demanding learning curve of todays sophisticated image processing software - but, they like their captured pictures to be as "nice" as possible...

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Some of them reached out and I processed their images with full Confidentiality for them to publish in many sites and magazines.

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Ethics - some will say it's not ethical to publish something you didn't process....Hmm...think of me as the local lab where you took your camera FILM to be exposed and printed.

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SO...

I have the time...You have the data...let's make nice pictures!

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Please see my free image processing tutorials:

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Some nice images can be seen down here....