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INSTRUCTOR:

By now, you'll have your first images back from Coast And we hope you're happy with them. Of course, we're not expecting them to look like this straightaway. And indeed it took me quite a lot of work to get this image of M27 that we looked at last time to get it looking like this, the way that I was completely happy with. There was quite a lot of repetition and experimentation involved until I got it to this stage.

There are certain adjustments you can make. So within Coast, you can adjust the contrast of your images. You can adjust the colour balance. And in a colour image, you can make adjustments of the alignment between the red, green, and blue frames to get the image looking the best that it can.

Now, you'll have the opportunity to go back and collect more images this week. And now you'll have the benefit of what you've learned from the images that you've already got. So you might want to try some different exposures. And you can use the images you already have to decide what exposures to use, maybe to decide which filters you want to try.

And what you'll find, just as I found in processing this image, is that each stage, as you use the information you've already got from the images you've already taken to repeat and refine and practise, that your images will get better and better, and they'll improve. So as you go through this week, keep taking images. Keep using what you've learned to improve them. And we'll look forward to seeing the results at the end of this week.