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 […]
The Rosette Nebula is one of the iconic deep sky objects of the deep sky. It’s also the official state astronomical object of Oklahoma. We both learned something new today! […]
The Perseus Double Cluster is one of the most popular places to point a telescope for visual observers in the northern hemisphere. The sight of the two clusters in a […]
My second year of astrophotography was a lot more productive than the first thanks to both a change in equipment and slightly better weather. This video looks back over 2019 […]
Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy is the third largest galaxy in our local group of galaxies (behind the Andromeda galaxy and our own Milky Way). It is […]
In March of 2018 I finally began attempting to do tracked astrophotography. That is, using a tracking mount and a camera to take multiple images and combine them in the […]
In the last video we talked about how to determine what the optimal exposure level was. That method depended upon knowing what your cameras exposure offset is. If you don’t […]
This data actually is about six week old at this point. It was challenging to process and I was hoping to get more but six weeks of clouds have pushed […]
The Pelican Nebula is located just off the “east coast” of the North American Nebula in Cygnus. It is an emission nebula about 1,800 light years away and has an […]
NOVAC and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum teamed up to present a star party to the public at the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport. I tried a […]
This is a peek at NOVAC’s Star Gaze event, held every year in October. I speak with several NOVAC members and some guests. My apologies for the audio quality. The […]
The eastern veil nebula, NGC 6992, is part of a supernova complex known as the Cygnus Loop. The entire loop is quite large covering more than six degrees of sky […]
