Eric’s Observatory
I crossed paths with Eric in the spring of 2021 as we were both trying to solve a problem with daytime exposures with Thomas Jacquin’s excellent open source All Sky […]
Ring Around The Ring
Recently, I completed an image of M57 that tried to bring out the detail in the outer ring. This video is the story of how that came about.
Two Tales Of One Galaxy
During galaxy season I did an image of M101 because there weren’t a lot of suitable targets for my 80mm refractor’s relatively wide field of view. Most galaxies are small […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
