What is BiggSky?
BiggSky is an application for processing astronomy images. It is designed to be easy-to-use, intuitive and powerful. BiggSky may be best known for its deconvolution technology that removes blur from images.
Why should I use BiggSky?
BiggSky can take your raw astro images and calibrate, stack, enhance and colorize them. The results can also be exported and used in other applications.
What type of images can I process?
- Long exposure imaging of galaxies, nebulae etc.
- Planetary
- Lunar
- Solar
What types of files are supported?
Where possible all 8 bit, 16 bit and 32 bit variants are supported
- TIFF/TIF (single and multi-page)
- PNG
- BMP
- GIF
- JPEG/JPG (not recommended unless lossless compression used)
- Camera RAW
- .crw, .cr2, .cr3, .nef, .raf, .dng, .mos, .kdc, .dcr
- FITS/FIT/FTS
- DICOM/DCM
- XISF (PixInsight)
- SER (Fire Capture)
- Movie
- .avi, .mj2, .mpg, .wmv, .asf, .mp4, .m4v, .mov
What is Deconvolution?
Deconvolution is a mathematical process for removing the blur from an image. The blur is characterized by the inherent Point Spread Function (PSF). Normally the user must provide the PSF which is difficult and error prone. The BiggSky algorithm is able to determine the PSF directly from the image itself, using a technique called “blind deconvolution”.
Please watch the talk given on The Astro Imaging Channel:
See https://www.youtube.com/live/VGnfh4oZKPA?si=EpLJdZXg1IouueHs
Do the algorithms use Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)?
No A.I. algorithms are currently used.
Do I need a Matlab license to use the app?
No. The Matlab Runtime is provided as part of the installation to enable the compiled application to run. You cannot change the app or run any other Matlab scripts.
Can I use a GPU to process images faster?
Yes, if you have a recent nVidia graphics card on Windows OS. See System Requirements below.
Can I process non-astro images?
More than likely. Please contact us directly so we can advise the best processing settings.