It was great to be invited back to participate in another Virtual Star Party. With COVID-19 making in person gatherings impossible it was nice to share a love of the sky with people via the internet.
This video gives an overview of manually preprocessing images in PixInsight using data from multiple sessions. It then gives a brief overview of the same thing using WBPP 2.0. Related […]
M101 is popularly known as the Pinwheel Galaxy for obvious reasons. It is a face-on spiral galaxy that lives in Ursa Major. It has an apparent size of just under […]
It’s been said that if you’ve seen one globular cluster then you have seen them all. Certainly, at first glance, this can seem true. The Milky Way and other large […]
This is my next to last image from the observatory in West Virginia. While I was working on the M45 image I acquired data on the cone when the moon […]
Messier 45, also known as the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters and Subaru among many other names is perhaps the brightest open cluster in the sky, at least in the northern […]
I was honored to be asked to present to my home club, the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club for the February meeting. My presentation, “Finding Light In The Dark” was an […]
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 […]
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