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Manual Multisession Processing

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

astrophotography

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

astrophotography

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 […]

image processing

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 […]

astrophotography

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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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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