The first of three images from a single night.When shooting with my One Shot Colour camera, I often use a dual-narrowband filter - for certain targets it can mimic the effect of shooting narrowband with a mono camera.I've owned a couple of Optolong dual narrowband...
Being somewhat of a digital packrat has it's benefits! Bar a small incident involving a hard drive failure back in the summer, I NEVER get rid of old subframes, and as I've learned more of PixInsights quirks, and read up on new techniques, I like...
The Soul Nebula is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia.With the arrival of my new scope, I wanted to push it a little, and opted to build another mosaic, as my previous Heart Nebula mosaic was still my favourite image to date.I've also...
A pretty successful six months of progress had convinced me that astrophotography was something I was keen to pursue, so October saw me investing in some new equipment - firstly a new telescope, a William Optics Flurostar 91.While the Skywatcher ED80 had produced some cracking...
Half of the battle of taking a good astrophoto isn't taking the photo - it's the post processing!I've always been fairly confident in my ability to capture a target - the big thing for me this year has been learning how best to process this...
September was a VERY sparse month, with few clear nights. On the nights it WAS clear, we typically had other plans which meant no imaging for me - which was a shame as the nights were starting to close in, and we had a return...
The 533MC Pro is a cracking little camera, and I've been fantastically pleased with it.It's sensor is quite small however - but that's the tradeoff you pay for it not costing as much as it's big brother the 2600MC Pro!If I don't want to spend...
I've often joked that astrophotography is a lot like doing tech support in the dark...
Whilst the reception I had from friends and family for the Crescent Nebula image (see previous post) was really positive, I found the ZWO 183MC camera a struggle to deal with.Luckily, I came across a guy called Alan on the Stargazers Lounge forum who was...