I came across some interesting software called “StarNet++” which allows you to remove stars from your astronomy photos with retaliative ease. Nikita Misiura’s Orginal Update on StarNet++ https://www.astrobin.com/397290/ Software Download off Sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/projects/starnet/ The How-To Guide on Cloudy Nightshttps://www.cloudynights.com/topic/651745-starnet-star-removing-software/ AstroBackyard’s Guide on StarNet++https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/ So of Course I had to test it on the toughest star-filled […]
Author: Graeme Hay
IRAS & GGSE Potential Collision
The astronomy community is all in a tizzy over the possibility of two derelict satellites in high orbit might collide. The odds are 1 in 20 according to LeoLab that an impact will occur. As it was clear I grabbed my camera and set-up camp to capture the potential disastrous (for orbiting satellites) collision. Hear […]
Solar Imaging in Denmark – The Round Tower
The Round Tower in Copenhagen sports an Observatory on top, and on select days its open to the public, so during my visits to the city I had to go and check it out! It is toted as the oldest operating telescope in Europe dating form 1929! As it daytime the only thing to observe […]
Smorgasbord of Targets from an Evening of Errors
Oh boy… lets start with listing what went wrong on the first fully clear winter night of 2019/2020 which I was able to image. I had my EdgeHD 8 telescope set-up, a rareity but I decided the cold weather would help my uncooled cameras function better and at F/10 one needs to be able to […]
Lunar Sharpness Test #2
So with the Moon being the only thing I can image these days (these shot was during the late afternoon) as it seems to be cloudy every night… I decided to try a second sharpness lunar test. So, here is the scenario. Both Images were taken at the same time (give or take 5 minutes […]
Moon Sharpness Test #1
So I own a few telephoto lenses and I decided to do a quick test (its been cloudy and finally a clear night and the Full moon is all I have to image). I devised this quick test as I wanted to see which lens could produce the most detailed photo (a combination of sharpness, […]
Rosette Nebula – First Light
Despite several nights of “clear skies” the North Shore Observatory has been inundated with very bad seeing, maybe low level clouds or everyone is having fires in their chimneys. Eitherway here is a quick image of the Rosette Nebula which is shaping up to be my next main target. I did manage to get some […]
Snowy Dream Drive (Video)
How far are you willing to go for Bortle 1 Dark Skies and Viewing Areas?
Moon Dog
So these occassionally occur, I’m not the biggest moon observer so when the moon is out I’m usually in. But tonight I happened to of looked up while taking the dogs out and to my surprise, found a third “dog” in the sky. A moon dog is a halo around the moon from frozen ice […]
Orion Constellation DSOs and Starlink Satellites
Orion is finally rising up to a point where I can start to image, however not an ideal position (as I’m shooting around a radio tower placement) and when I was looking at the images in Pixinsight Blink (helps me determine if a photo got haze or to much motion) I saw several streaks across […]