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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]