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” »
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” »
