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I am enjoying going back to some of my previously imaged galaxies and getting a much closer and more detailed view using this longer focal length telescope. This iconic target is one of the most mesmerizing objects in the night sky. First discovered by Charles Messier in 1773, M51 contains 2...

And now for something completely different (for me anyway). Here is a Moon close up, produced from lucky imaging techniques from about ~1.5 mins of 1080p video of the Moon, using my EdgeHD 925 with reducer (1645mm focal Length) and my ASI1600MM camera. This was shot through my Hα filter, which...

Some targets are imaged often, but still manage to provide really nice results (like many iconic scenic locations here on Earth). M81 is certainly in that category, a large tilted grand spiral design galaxy. I have now captured this 3 times; once as part of a well known composite with M82 (a...

So it has taken a little while to get my new (purchased used but new to me) higher magnification scope online. It started out with collimation problems, and then I had to work through a few issues with getting the new setup to run under NINA and also some issues with focus and star sizes...

So here is my final image from the remote session, as my friend is traveling back to CO from AZ for a while. I hope to get back to imaging at the back part of March, and that will be with my higher magnification OTA. I REALLY introduced myself to a bunch a annoyance on the post-processing of...

So this was a good example of how you never know what you are going to get. I started out expecting good signals in all 3 NB wavelengths for this target, but soon found out that the OIII signal is very very weak, as well as being very localized to just the central regions of these 2 nebulae. On...

So I am really enjoying being able to make posts of new original material here again, although after this one, I am all caught up again on post processing and will have to go get some more data to post. In fact, I was not thinking I was ready to post this data yet, having only ~5 and a half...

So here is the first deep sky image after all the light leak nonsense was fixed. It sure was a lot nicer processing this data without a bunch of mysterious intermittent gradients all over the place. This object was fun to process, although once again, in order to get the 'Monkey head' portion...

This was such a learning experience figuring out how to capture and then process this comet that I cannot really say yet if this will be my final best result, but if it turns out to be I am pretty happy with the results. I ended up capturing comet data on 2 separate nights, with the first night...

OK, so after a lot of lost imaging time and effort flat black painting the inside of my QHYCFW3L filter wheel, it was sent back down with the camera to AZ to be reassembled to the OTA. That was done yesterday, and a typical check was made to make sure all systems were connected properly and that...

I stated thinking I would not have 10 shots, and ended with some difficult decisions at cutting images off the list. I guess that is a good thing :) 1. A February trip to the Saint George area of Utah was very fun, and seeing the Kolob Canyons portion of Zion National Park was certainly the...

(I have already posted this on Cloudy Nights, but with such an active and accomplished group of astroimagers now here on FocalWorld I thought I would repost here, in case someone has some thoughts...) So I am just getting back imaging with a new camera/filterwheel combo, and have been seeing...

So many of you are aware of my astrophotography setup, where I have my gear located in AZ and control it from here in CO. I am an avid imager, but only those who have been around on this forum for a little while would be aware of that, as the remote nature of my setup means I am not always in...

So in driving back from Green Valley, AZ to home I decided to head over to this famous wildlife refuge on my first day of driving, as I was staying the night in Albuquerque. I got there later in the day after about 7+ hours of driving which these days is getting close to my limit. I drove the...

So an 8 day trip (4 days of which were driving) down to extreme Southern AZ where my astro gear is situated finally did pay off. I got both my existing refractor based setup back online, and also (after some last minute heroics performed by Dean at Starizona in Tucson) my Edge 9.25 SCT OTA setup...

A trip back east to North Carolina to see friends also produced a couple of good days of photo opportunities and the autumn colors in the higher elevations did not disappoint. here are 3 of my favorites from the trip. As always, comments and critiques most welcome! Elk against some fall foliage...

So I had the good fortune to take 2 day trips into the high country of Colorado last week and the colors were really popping. I mean it was hard to know where to point your lens there was color going off everywhere it seemed like. Definitely a great fall season this year. I usually try not to...

So for those of you using Pixinsight, I am going to include a link to a very cool and amazing easy to use and effective suite of star reduction scripts that use Pixel Math. Is this just a thinly veiled opportunity for me to repost some of my older stuff? (well, that is a nice side effect :) )...

So I always struggle to take vertically oriented images. Not sure why - it is just not the way my brain is wired. But I attempt them anyway. Once in a while they do work for me, but in many cases not. In this case, the vertical shot seems 'OK' - but later I went back and found a horizontal crop...

So many who are regulars here have noticed that I just have not been posting any of my own astro images lately. My current setup of having my gear remotely located in AZ and myself in CO can yield great results but I am often not able to use my equipment whenever I would like, as I do rely on my...