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It’s safe to say that many of us began astrophotography feeling overwhelmed by the unnerving task of creating even the simplest astro image. Typically those first successful images were met with a healthy dose of humility as we began to understand the reality of assembling an aesthetically pleasing astronomical image. As we acquired more experience and gradually mastered the fundamentals of image processing our goals and objectives likely evolved and matured.
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Gendler, R. (2013). Aesthetics and Composition in Deep Sky Imaging. In: Gendler, R. (eds) Lessons from the Masters. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series, vol 179. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7834-8_16
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