AI with Sunflowers

Being a bit of a Luddite I often steer well clear of computer hardware and software. 

No GOTO telescope alignments for me;  planispheres and setting circles everytime.

Though I sometimes peek at what's available; for example the Seestar S30 & 50 have both caught my attention..one day maybe.

The latest digital intrigue is to possibly clean up some of my astronomy pictures using Gemini AI.

First of all Venus.

Here's an image I took via the projection method of the Venus Transit from June 4th 2004:

After letting Gemini AI clean it up, here is the finished result:

The image returned by AI processing could not be improved on by me if I had a week of Sundays to do it: Gemini AI took all of 10 seconds to produce the image you see above.

Is it cheating to use AI in this manner?  I don't think so, for if that were true I would have been cheating using the 35mm SLR camera that took the initial photo back in 2004!

With that in mind, here are a couple more of my astro images cleaned by AI:

In the above image I simply asked it to remove the nearby orange streetlight component.

This is the result...

... processed and delivered in under ten seconds!  

Another one of my sunspot images.

With AI at the helm this image below was produced, again in about five to ten seconds. 

I tried a few more solar photos, but AI was keen to add more penumbral detail than I thought was necessary. 

It was apt to make the final sunspot groupings look a bit like Van Gogh's sunflowers!