ALPO Online Section Research & Investigation
Welcome to my landing page for online studies that seek to provide data on how we can best process our video captures into images that display the most detail possible. The entire workflow for generating a video and turning it into beautiful and scientifically valuable picture that represents a soalr system body at a point in time is multi-faceted to say the least. Here, with your help, I hope to help answer some questions and provide evidence based outcomes on what works best in our efforts.
The basic approach here is you will be shown an image with a vertical sliding bar. By sliding the bar you can examine and compare the two images with each other. Once you have examined the image and can determine which is a better (or, perhaps you can see no real difference) you record your score for that image pair.
While the web page of the study is responsive and can display on a phone, it is suggested that a table or laptop/PC would offer a better display of the test images. Note that you can also optionally provide your email address if you would like to be notified of the study outcomes.
Thank you in advance for investing a little time to help provide the data points that can help provide real-world guidance on image processing for observers of the Solar System (and be sure to share this page with anyone else whom you think may be interested!)
Research Studies Catalog
Study #1:
Alignment Points Based on Seeing Conditions
This study compares two imaging captures. One is under very good seeing, the other under slightly below average seeing taken with the same equipment. There are 3 images for each capture, each done with a different size alignment point in Autostakkert3! In theory, the capture under better seeing should produce a better image using smaller alignment points, while the poorer seeing should benefit with larger alignment points. This simple study seeks to determine whether this is true and to what extent it impacts the resulting image.