A Stargazers Journey into Astrophotography
This in one of two videos on how easy it is to use artificial stars to collimate an SCT. I use the Hubble Optics Artificial Stars Flashlight @ https://hubble-optics.com/artificial-stars.html If you use a mount to steady your telescope, you need to turn tracking off. I use CPWI so it is simple to turn it off … Read More “How to Collimate using artificial stars and a hyperstar” »
This in one of two videos on how easy it is to use artificial stars to collimate an SCT. I use the Hubble Optics Artificial Stars Flashlight @ https://hubble-optics.com/artificial-stars.html If you use a mount to steady your telescope, you need to turn tracking off. I use CPWI so it is simple to turn it off … Read More “How to Collimate using artificial stars” »
When I first started down the path of Astrophotography, I read and tried a lot of different ways to stack the image/frames I generated with my telescope and camera. It seemed like a lot of people were talking about having free software for every step they took. When I ran across some photos processed using … Read More “Stacking with PixInsight” »
You just spent 8 hours imaging a Deep Space Object (DSO) only find out that you have elongated stars after stacking your images. This handy little tool will allow you to view all the subs (frames) like a movie so you can identify and remove the bad frames. Allowing you to only stack the good … Read More “PixInsight Blink Tool” »
Last night I set the telescope on the Beehive Cluster around 1am. This morning I woke up at 6 am and stopped SharpCap from imaging. Around 7:30 am I used Weighted Batch Processing script in PixInsight on and started combining the 622 images taken. When I compare the image below to the first one I … Read More “Beehive using HyperStar 4” »
I played around with a Svbony 205 using Sharpcap. I was not impressed for a few reasons. Obvious tracking was an issue. The camera is like putting a 5mm lense on, so the stars, planets and moon moved very quickly making it almost impossible to get great pictures. I bought a used Cannon on Ebay … Read More “New Camera” »
