Imaging
Astrophotography images captured from Houston and DSP Remote Observatory in Animas, New Mexico (Bortle Class 1). Each post includes the final image, acquisition details, equipment used, and processing notes — everything you need to understand how the image was made. From wide-field nebulae to high-resolution planetary, these are real results from a Mac-based imaging workflow.
Asteroid or satellite?
I managed to catch this on my guide scope with the ZWO ASI290mm camera as I was trying to focus it better. I saw a
The bloodiest of moons.
As most people did last week, I managed to get outside and catch the Blood Moon. I came prepared. I had two telescope setups and
Revisiting IC 417 on the ES 102mm
I decided to revisit IC 417 but this time with a wider field of view. The image was previously taken with my AT6RC, and it
Narrowband Imaging IC410 and IC417
Over the last two weeks, I’ve had 3 imaging nights. KStars & EKOS 3.0 were released which fixed a ton of long standing
13 Panel Mosaic of the Moon
Yesterday, I had a few hours of clear sky, and got out my AVX along with my Celestron C5, and ZWO ASI224MC camera. I was
HD 14771 and Galactic Friends
I managed to produce a neat image over the last two nights. I centered the star HD14771 to place NGC 891 in the lower right
Pacman Nebula captured with EKOS, and processed in PixInsight.
I managed to get a few clear nights last week. Just two in fact. So, knowing I had only two nights to image, I focused
Imaging the Elephant Trunk Nebula - IC1396
I imaged this nebula over two nights for a total of 14 hours. There are 7 hours of H-a, and 7 hours of OIII data.
This is what processing a stack of 720 light frames looks like on an iMac Pro
1,000% CPU utilization in Astro Pixel Processor. I'm three hours into processing this stack of 720 luminance images for M101. It'