Friday, February 21, 2020

RawTherapee app Conquers Chromatic Aberration!

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While I have written before about this noisome issue of purple fringing on stars I have found that the RawTherapee (google it) app does a f...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

The Occultation of Mars by the Moon Captured

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Got up early this morning and caught the 4:38 am exiting of Mars from behind the Moon!  Thank you, my wonderful wife, for helping me...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

Finally, after 40 days and 40 nights of clouds, snow and rain...Two Images!

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First up, The Rosette Nebula (north east of the constellation Orion). Under a "first quarter" moon it finally cleared up last...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

2019 Year In Review Poster

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2019 is in the books and here are the stats: For 64 nights of 2019 I was in the obs imaging ( 17% ) an average of only 5 days per month...
Friday, December 13, 2019

Total Solar Eclipse with the Citizen CATE Project UPDATE !

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I have always wanted to do more than look at celestial objects and image them. To help do some actual science was a hope I thought was beyo...
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Monday, November 25, 2019

Meade LX200GPS Mount communication issues SOLVED!

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To do quality astrophotography with a Meade LX200GPS telescope (by the way, mine is the 8" model) you need to be able to use a compute...
Monday, November 11, 2019

The 2019 Transit of Mercury

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Though the weather was mostly uncooperative (heavy fog and some clouds to boot) I was able to grab a few images of the transit of Mercury. ...