M3
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 […]
Cone Nebula
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 […]
M45
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 […]
Presentation To NOVAC, 14 February 2021
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Subframe Approval
This video explains how to use the subframe selector process in PixInsight to decide which frames to keep and which to discard.
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 […]
Multisession WBPP
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 […]
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 […]
