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So whiole waiting for the Conjunction to come out from behind clouds, I decided to mess around with the mon. I took the obligatory single frame shot it was - okay. Then I decided to try out some of the amazing video on the R5, so I set up to shoot in 4K 30 FPS Fine mode - which is downsampled...

So I am sure I'm getting a little stir-crazy, not having traveled too far away or taken too many scenic shots lately. I was actually out on the open space path behind our house the other day, trying to wait out a juvenile Eagle that was very far away across the field in hopes he would fly my...

Hi, Now that I have a new camera that appears to be able to excel at both landscape/scenic shooting and potentially wildlife shooting as well, I am quickly realizing the hassle of trying to deal with schlepping both a ball head and a gimbal head around. I found this product that purports to be...

Here is the final set of data from a very successful 2020 astroimaging campaign. 13 new images in a year, compared to 1 image from the period from June 2018 to March of 2020 - quite an improvement. I initially did not have great hopes for this data, as it was only collected as a NB bi-color data...

So here is the 5th from the most recent data collects. I originally was not sure I would go after this target, but in retrospect I am glad I did. Hopefully I am not wearing folks out with all these recent astro posts, but this is about the end of it for me again for a while. Hard to know if the...

I have wanted to image this amazing object for quite a while, and this last imaging session I was finally able to get some time on it. The Helix Nebula is the closest planetary nebula to the Earth, at an estimated distance of about 650 light years. This then also makes it the largest planetary...

So this post serves as a great indicator for why narrowband astro processing is more art than science. IC1795, the Fishhead Nebula, is an aptly named emission nebula that is often imaged as part of the larger Heart Nebula. It is a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. I...

So I am trying to push through editing my latest data to allow me to have time to make some 2020 Astro calendars with the images I will have collected with my very successful remote setup this year. But each one of these takes quite a number of hours to process, probably because I get a little...

M33, the 2nd closest galaxy to us, is shown in image. This is the first processed image from my second remote imaging session, controlling my gear in AZ from here in CO. Things went reasonably smoothly throughout almost the entire 11 night stretch with some remote control issues only cropping...

So I don't usually post this many images at once, but I am making an exception due to the content. It seems like the entire state of CO is going up in smoke. The latest is a fire that sprang up uncomfortably close, and was visible from the nature path behind our house this afternoon, where I...

The wonderful open space trail that runs right behind my house can sometimes be a very special place, and often Fall is one of those times. While walking the dog this afternoon I suddenly realized that things back there had progressed to a point where I did not have to get in my car and drive...

Some early morning light as we climb out of the valley our campsite was in, along CO 133 between Carbondale and Paonia, CO last week. Loved the little evergreen tree that looks misplaced amongst all the other types of brush and trees. It is like it is trying to figure out how to get over to the...

Here are 2 from my recent short trip, posted together because they are slightly different compositions of the same scene. I struggled to pick my favorite of the 2, and finally decided they are different enough that both deserve posting on my website. As always, interested to hear what folks...

These 2 had been hanging out for the better part of a month along the open space trail behind our house, just a 5 minute walk down the path. So much cool wildlife back there. I hope to get more into wildlife shooting whenever my R5 comes in...But here is a heavily cropped shot, using the 5DSR...

This is posted in the Landscape Forum in color, where one person suggested a B&W conversion might be nice. I do not have much experience at that, but here is my try. Would love some feedback from others on how this came out and what could be improved. For comparison, here is the link to the...

So while surfing through my 2018 UT trip images for some Antelope canyon images to post in Friday's focus, I came across this image. I was struck by it almost immediately, and after some editing tweaks and putting a 16 x 9 crop on it, I ended up deciding I really liked it. By no means a world...

So here is the nest set of data from my remote data collections in southern AZ earlier this year. This is almost 4 hours of data collected on the Whale (NGC4631) and the Hockey Stick (NGC4656/57) Galaxies. The Whale is close to the center in this image, and its dwarf elliptical companion galaxy...

So here is the next image finally processed from my remote data captures with my gear that was located down in Green Valley, AZ. This is slightly more than 12 hours of data using all filters except luminance (Ha, OIII, SII, Red, Green, Blue) to produce more of a red / blue palette. Since the...