June Meeting
Saturday, June 1, 2024, 7:00 pm
How & Why AI Changed My Imaging Workflow
JUNE MEETING
In-person and via Zoom
In-person and via Zoom
Meeting & Speaker
Saturday, June 1, 2024
at Seagrave Memorial Observatory
6 PM: Socializing
7 PM: Business Meeting & Presentation
TOPIC: "How & Why AI Changed My Imaging Workflow"
SPEAKER: Kevin Boucher, Aldrich Astronomical Society
Since the advent of Artificial Intelligencve (AI) and how it was applied to Image manipulation, you had to know some smart individual was going to come along and apply Machine Learning to Astrophotography. Along comes Russell Croman of RC Astro who initially came out with his amazing StarXterminator program that separates Stars from your Deep Sky Target (Galaxy/Nebula/etc..). Soon to follow RC Astro came out with two more products called NoiseXterminator and BlurXterminator. All these products run as Processes within the popular Image Processing Tool PixInsight. As a result, these tools have completely changed my Imaging Workflow for the better. See why and how I changed my Workflow and the reason it drastically improved my Image quality.
Kevin has been retired for almost 10 years coming this November. He was a software consultant for 30+ years traveling many places around the country and the world developing new software systems for companies. For a couple years he traveled to many of the largest cities in the country on a paid speaking tour on IT related subjects.
Kevin got into astronomy on his 10th wedding anniversary (over 25 years ago) when he and his wife traveled to Sedona Arizona to a resort and an amateur astronomer was positioned on the roof of the restaurant at the resort every evening. He couldn't get enough of it. Soon thereafter, he bought his first telescope and a few years after that started in astrophotography with the first mass produced amateur CCD camera from MEADE called the Deep Sky Imager. He has been trying to improve his astrophotography hobby over the last 25 years as the technology changes.
