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Astronomy Cast Episode 241 from Monday, November 28, 2011.

Astrophotography Part 3. Image Processing

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.

We'll help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Abriceville.

Hi Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Doing good, so we should plug again about the end of the world cruise, which just to let people know we're kind of quietly plugging the end of the world cruise here in Astronomy Cast

before we plug it in sort of wider audiences.

So I haven't mentioned on University Day, and we haven't got fill over it.

Bad Astronomy to mention it, and so on, mostly just to not that even this is really wood, but you know, we'll ask.

But just because we want to give Astronomy Cast listeners sort of a more of a chance to get in, and if you don't want to participate in Book of Room on the cruise, Book of Cabin, and join us.

So remember, we're going to celebrate the end of the world, December 21st, 2012, cruising the Eastern Caribbean on, you know, and even visiting Mayan Ruins when it's all supposed to end.

So you can get all the details if you go to astrosphere.org, and we have a phone number for you to call the travel agent who's booking everything.

Her name is Zelda, and when you talk to her, just tell her Astronomy Cast sent me.

And we'll go in our own adventure. Thanks to Zelda.

Perfect.

Alright, well, let's get on in.

Time for part three of our tour through the hobby of astro photography.

You set up your gear, taking some clear images, and now we're going to help you turn that raw data into the kind of amazing photographs you see in books and on the web.

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