Linda's Astronomy Adventures

VSP 9: Season Premiere

After a couple of false starts thanks to the fires out west, the fall season of Virtual Star Parties is finally here! I was happy to be asked back and […]

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Beyond The Hubble Palette

On Sunday night, September 13, 2020, I was delighted to present on The Astro Imaging Channel. My top was about looking beyond the most common narrowband data combination, the Hubble […]

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Pickering’s Triangle & Western Veil – HOS

Earlier this month I did an HOO narrowband version of […]

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Western Veil & Pickering’s Triangle

Back in 2018 I was incredible excited to take my first image of the veil nebula. It wasn’t very good though I was pretty excited about it at the time. […]

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When SNR Goes Bad

This is a follow on to the previous video on subframe approval. In this one, we take a look at why you using SNRWeight as part of subframe approval is […]

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VSP 8: The Last Virtual Star Party (Before Hiatus)

This was the last virtual star party of the season. […]

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Subframe Approval

This video explains how to use the subframe selector process in PixInsight to decide which frames to keep and which to discard.

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VSP 7: Virtual Star Party with Fraser Cain

This was my third appearance on the VSP and amazingly I had clear skies for the third time! It was great fun participating with others to show the wonders of […]

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Leo Triplet

This was an image that was posted before its time. My original intent was to get eight hours each of red, green and blue and then try some hydrogen alpha […]

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VSP 6: Virtual Star Party with Fraser Cain

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VSP 4: Virtual Star Party with Fraser Cain

I was honored to be asked to participate in one of Fraser Cain’s Virtual Star Parties. It was great fun to get to show off some of the views from […]

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PixInsight’s Weighted Batch Preprocessing script is great for handling the preprocessing for an image acquired in a single night but doesn’t handle images acquired over multiple nights. This video shows […]

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M81 & M82

Near the start of my astrophotography journey I did an image of M81 & M82 using a DSLR and a 200mm lens. It wasn’t very good though I was quite […]

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Soul Nebula

The Soul Nebula is an emission nebula in Cassiopeia. It almost certainly gets its name because of its proximity to the Heart Nebula in the sky and not due to […]

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The Hole In The Trees Skybox

The Hole In The Trees Skybox is the backyard observatory of Kevin Quin. Kevin was kind enough to allow me to come in and tour his observatory and pester him […]

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My First Narrowband Image

Last month I finished my first narrowband image. Since then the weather has been almost entirely overcast with a lot of rain. To do something constructive with the enforced downtime […]

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