About AlphaPixel
AlphaPixel makes image-restoration software for astrophotographers. Its first objective is accuracy: recovering what your telescope actually saw.
Bounded by Physics
The rise of AI is one of the most remarkable things of our time, and it can create truly fantastic images. But most people now associate AI images with fantasy: pictures bound neither by reality nor by the physics of nature.
Astrophotography is an art, but at its core it is science, and science is bounded by nature. That is why accuracy in image reconstruction is AlphaPixel's primary objective. Wavefront Restore is built to recover what was really there, by reversing what your optics, mount and sky did to the light, not to paint in what wasn't.
The Founder
Astronomy and optical engineering have been Ram Viswanathan's passion since he was 14. His first telescope was a 5-inch Newtonian he built himself. He went on to build a 9-inch f/7 and an 8-inch f/6, parabolizing and testing their mirrors himself with help from his astronomy club.
Astronomy went on hold while he built a career in the software industry. He helped create numerous innovative products at Microsoft, Amazon, EMC/Dell and several startups, both as an engineer and in leadership roles.
AlphaPixel brings the two together: a telescope maker's understanding of what an imperfect wavefront does to a star, and the software to undo it.