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Continue reading →: Heart Nebula: Success with L-eNhance Filter & Independent Channel StretchingMy second major deepspace target for the month of October was the Heart Nebula. I shot this with the Optolong L-eNhance dual narrowband filter, approximately 200 5 minute subs over the course of 2 nights. As I always do after a completed night of shooting I do a quick stack,…
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Continue reading →: Clear Skies: Capturing the Andromeda Galaxy in OctoberOctober was a crazy month for astronomy with the Arouras and the Comet, and finally a good stretch of clear skies. I’ve got a lot of data built up, and I’m finally getting around to processing it. Here’s the Andromeda Galaxy, which I shot over two nights in early October.…
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Continue reading →: 2nd Comet Time LapseThis time lapse was actually taken before the 1st one, but there was a lot more data, so it took me longer to compile. The comet was brighter and showed better, I just wished I had picked a better foreground to frame the image.
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Continue reading →: Comet Time Lapse
I’ve been too busy capturing data before the comet fades, so I haven’t had much time to work with on processing yet. Here’s the 1st time lapse I completed. I was little disappointed in how it came out. The comet is fainter than I had hoped, it had already faded…
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Continue reading →: Northern LightsSometimes the best opportunities just come to you by chance, when you aren’t prepared. You just do the best you can with what you have. Last night was one of those moments. I was aware the Aurora Borealis was likely to be visible, and I was considering various ways to…
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Continue reading →: First Night on Andromeda (M31)I got one night of solid imaging in over the weekend on M31. The results are looking promising, but I want to get at least one more night of data on it before I move on to something else. I’m going to quickly go over what went right, and what…
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Continue reading →: Western Veil Nebula – Processed in Hubble PaletteI reprocessed my data from earlier this month on the Western Veil Nebula. I’m quite happy with the result, aside from the framing…this wasn’t a well planned shot it was more of an equipment check out, and it’s awkwardly framed. I’ll probably come back to this target next year with…
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Continue reading →: Pelican Nebula – Reprocessed in Hubble PaletteI followed the workflow of Rich from @DeepSpaceAstro to reprocess my image of the Pelican Nebula in the Hubble Palette. I used the Extract HaOIII script, some background extraction and denoising in GraXpert, then Starless stretching/recombination and final touch up. Let me know what you think in the comments!
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Continue reading →: Pelican NebulaI completed post processing on the pelican nebula this week, and I was fairly pleased with the results. This was comprised of about 12.5 hours of total integration, taken over 2 nights, about 3.5 hours the first night and about 9 hours the second. I broke a little bit away…
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Continue reading →: ZWO Electronic Autofocuser Install
Hey everyone, published my first youtube video showing the process of installing the autofocuser on my telescope. This is a really good topic for a video, because while the instructions were rather confusing, it wasn’t a difficult job; definitely a case where it’s much easier to show than to describe.…
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