NO TELESCOPE REQUIRED! In this 50-minute tutorial I walk through a complete astrophotography processing of Rho Ophiuchi data from Telescope Live's One-Click Observations (https://telescope.live). I talk about the basics of using Telescope Live to schedule basic remote telescope observations with their robotic telescopes and then I jump into processing the raw FITS files from Telescope Live in the free and open-source astrophotography processing program Siril (https://siril.org) before bringing the Luminance and RGB images into Adobe Photoshop for final edits.

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0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Telescope Live Overview
4:39 - Queuing a One Click Observation
7:15 - Downloading Telescope Data
9:36 - Rho Ophiuchi Data
11:36 - Intro to Siril UI
12:40 - Setting a Home Directory in Siril
13:25 - Adding Luminance Data Files to Siril
15:00 - Stretching the Preview in Siril and Viewing FITS files
15:45 - Global Star Alignment and Registration
17:45 - Stacking
19:15 - Saving 32-Bit Luminance TIF
20:20 - Red Filtered Data Processing
21:35 - Green Filtered Data Processing
22:26 - Blue Filtered Data Processing
23:05 - Compositing RGB Data
26:31 - Color Correction and Background Neutralization in Siril
28:36 - Saving 32-Bit RGB TIF
29:20 - Opening TIFs in Adobe Photoshop
30:53 - Initial RGB Curves Correction in Photoshop
33:01 - Converting 32-Bit RGB to 16-Bit
34:10 - Luminance Initial Edits and Importing
37:50 - Improving Nebulae in Luminance Layers
38:20 - Star Reduction
40:55 - Nebulosity Sharpening
42:13 - Star Restoration with Inverted Mask
45:20 - Combining Luminance and RGB Data
46:30 - Final Edits
47:45 - Closing

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