Linda's Astronomy Adventures

The Astro Imaging Channel Workshop

I was honored to be invited on to the weekly YouTube program, The Astro Imaging Channel, to do a short presentation on how I processed M13 data that was made […]

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PixInsight Processing With Flat Darks

This is a presentation I put together for a member of our local imaging group on how to use flat darks when doing image calibration in PixInsight.

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PixInsight Mask Creation

This was for the September 2019 meeting of NOVAC’s Byron Bergert Imaging Group. It is a basic introduction to mask creation in PixInsight.

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PixInsight Processing: Markarian’s Chain & M87

This was presented at the July 2019 meeting of NOVAC’s […]

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A Portion of IC 1318

IC 1318 has a couple of other names. It’s also known as the Sadr Region and the Gamma Cygni Nebula. Sadr and Gamma Cygni are both names for the bright […]

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M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy

M51 is also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy because of the look of the spiral shape when viewed through a telescope. It’s a fairly small target for my modest telescope […]

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M13

It’s been almost a month since we had a night that promised to be clear all night through. The last week or so we’ve had weather that taunted us with […]

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NOVAC Astronomy Day 2019

Here are some photos from NOVAC’s Astronomy Day event. The weather left no doubt that we would not be able to bring any telescopes out onto the field but the […]

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A DIY Flat Panel For Astrophotography

Anyone who engages in the hobby of astrophotography is familiar with the need to create “flat frames.” These are frames shot of a uniformly lit light source and are used […]

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Markarian’s Chain & M87

The universe is vast. It’s hard to comprehend just how big it is. For me, this image helps make that visceral. Without any effort, more than a dozen galaxies are […]

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Flaming Star Nebula

The Flaming Star Nebula has emission and reflection components. This turned out to be very difficult to process because of color splotchiness in the image. I’m not sure what the […]

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M31: The Reprocessing

Although I had already gone through three attempts to process the M31 data I collected in December, I wasn’t happy with any of them. During this extended period of bad […]

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Total Lunar Eclipse, January 2019

On the night of January 20th a total lunar eclipse occurred that was visible across all of North America. It had been a long time since I’d tried to photograph […]

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IC1805 – Heart Nebula

This was one of the most challenging images to process I’ve encountered yet. I’m not 100% sure of what the reason is but I have a few possible theories. Actually, […]

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M31 – The Andromeda Galaxy

it’s been a couple of months since work and weather have cooperated to allow me to attempt any imaging. When a night finally showed clear, even though the moon was […]

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Western Veil Nebula

This is an image of the Western Veil Nebula. Processing this one was a bit of a challenge and I went through several iterations thanks to helpful feedback from more […]

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