Affinity Photo just dropped a huge update to their software line-up adding a tonne of features that are well worth checking out. However the one that caught my eye was their new AstroPhotography Stacker which is a one-stop-shop for stacking all your lights, darks, flats, dark-flats, and bias frames into a final stacked image ready […]
Category: DSO
Astro Cinemagraphs Giveaway!
So I recently hit 1000 subscribers on my companion YouTube Channel and I wanted to give something back to the community for supporting me. So I cam up with some cinemagraphs people can use as fancy backgrounds in their various zoom and live streams to switch it up a bit. To get these 6 amazing […]
Starlink and the Crescent Nebula
So I’m starting to image in earnest with my Celestron EdgeHD 8 which up to this point has mainly had visual observation duty. Still working out some kinks in the guiding set-up with the OAG (before it was worse with a guide scope). First up was a quick shot of the Crescent Moon that was […]
SVBony 7nm Ha Filter
So I’ve been wanting to give Narrowband Imaging a try for a while, as I live under dark skies its not necessary but a few directions do have far off light bubbles and in the winter they are about a magnitude worse due to the ground being covered in snow. So I decided to “dip […]
StarNet++ Free Star Removal Tool for Astrophotography
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Auriga Constellation Smorgasbord
The Auriga Constellation is a Smorgasbord of Deep Space Objects!
Before the Moon Rises
Its third quarter moon so there is some astronomical twilight that ended up with clear skies so I decided to open the North Shore Observatory for a few hours and gather some star light; its been a while as I’ve been travelling and weather has not been cooperative recent. First target is my next project […]