M1, The Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula (which looks nothing like a crab in photos) is one of the iconic nebulae in the night sky. It’s even the first entry in Charles Messier’s famous […]
VSP 14
The weather finally cooperated to allow for another star party and despite a computer crash for me right at the end it was a successful event! We were able to […]
2020 In Review
While 2020 was a challenging year in many respects, it was a pretty good year for astrophotography. In this video, I look back at the images I was able to […]
LBN 581 – HSO
LBN 581, like many objects in the night sky goes by many names. This one is also known as NGC 7822 and Cederblad 214. This is not one of the […]
VSP 13
This was my first virtual star party after the move to the Shenandoah Valley and amazingly all the tech cooperated as did the weather. We had four astronomers showing views […]
VSP 12
During this week’s virtual star party Molly showed off Mars and Messier 33. I was able to show views of the Pelican Nebula, Pacman Nebula, Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) and […]
Pacman Nebula
The Packman Nebula (NGC 281) is an emission nebula in Cassiopeia. It is about 4,100 light years away and is about ½ degree by ½ degree so roughly the same […]
VSP 11
The weather cooperated two weeks in a row and we were able to have another virtual star party! I was able to show views of the Crescent Nebula, Elephant Trunk […]
VSP 10
It was a pleasure to be a part of the virtual star party this week. Between the fires out west and bad weather everywhere it had been a while since […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pickering’s Triangle & Western Veil – HOS
Earlier this month I did an HOO narrowband version of […]
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. […]
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 […]
VSP 8: The Last Virtual Star Party (Before Hiatus)
This was the last virtual star party of the season. […]
Subframe Approval
This video explains how to use the subframe selector process in PixInsight to decide which frames to keep and which to discard.
