This is in contrast to neighborhood processing, in which groups of pixels are used for input. Enhancement of astronomical images is an area that helped to give birth to the field Image Processing. This application of image restoration permitted astronomers to better interpret images of distant bodies. Such images can become corrupted when transmitted back to Earth. Limitations in image quality can also occur closer to home when using telescopes, for example.
Lengthy exposures improve image contrast, but introduce blurring due to the Earth s rotation.
Brief exposures eliminate motion blurring but yield relatively dim images which may hide details. This is the case for an image of the Hale-Bopp comet, which is studied in this project. The first image should have a checkerboard of white and black squares. Each square should be 16 pixels on a side. Your program should generate these images for the 'Spectrum 1' and 'Spectrum 2' windows.