GIMP Astrophotography Processing Tutorial - Beginner Friendly!

It's amazing what you can do with just the basics! This video contains just the bare bones on which to build on, and is highly suitable for people starting out with DSO image processing.

Here is a Drop Box link with the data if anyone wants to practice by following along: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bw9e9m0ftpohpqo/AAB1WSyarN6QzuA6-_ZD5EONa?dl=0

You can download GIMP for free here: (I'm not affiliated with GIMP in anyway, I'm just a keen user)

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

The data was collected using a StellaMira 90mm EDT refractor and Fuji XT1 mirrorless camera. 40x120second exposures. Just light frames and no filters.

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StellaMira 2" 0.8x Reducer/Flattener

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