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(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...

I went out twice with friends this past week and a half looking for some birds to image. We stayed in our local area the first trip, went at the wrong time of day, and basically got nothing. For the 2nd trip we got up early and headed out to a nearby wildlife refuge at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal...

I am a bit behind on posting, here is the last capture from a may trip to CA to Yosemite, King's Canyon, and Sequoia, that ended on a day of driving along the Pacific Coast Highway. This is the last image from the trip worth sharing, a capture of the sun right above the ocean, amazingly not...

I can find no evidence that I already posted these images - apologies if these are already posted. Here are 2 different 'water treatment' shots from a day driving along the Kings Canyon Scenic Byway this past May. I took a very slow shutter speed image of the river itself, and then a bit later...

Have a very clean and excellent performing EF 16-35 f/4 zoom for sale. has been a wonderful lens, but just not using it now, having moved to Canon mirrorless R5 and now shooting with the RF 14-35 f/4 for wide angle stuff. Comes with all the original items, hood, carry bag, box, and manual. Will...

No new images for me still yet, but some new gear finally is on its way: I was already wanting one of these, but after seeing the excellent results from some of our accomplished astroimagers, I ordered my own IMX571 based astro camera, this time from QHY. QHY268M 9 slot 2 inch filter wheel...

Finally got out on our planned trip to 3 newly visited National Parks in California this past month. We spent 10 days visiting Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia and I am done fiddling with images from the trip. I am pretty happy with results – maybe not any singular images but a lot of ones...

So this is a project that has been on my to-do list for a while, but as many of you know, I can only image at certain times of the year when my AZ dwelling friend is at his place, so this has had to wait. This is the second mosaic I have attempted and I am happy with how it came out. Comments...

So given that it seems like I have images to share only infrequently, I am going to post in a few different postings to try to draw the experience out a little. But in true Mike Lewis fashion I am also unable to build the excitement so I am going to post 2 takes on likely my favorite subject...

So here is a handheld single frame of the Moon, taken from our VRBO we just got back from in Southern Utah. It was a great trip and I will also be posting some landscape stuff from the trip too. But I have been talking about trying to get a single frame Moon shot with the RF100-500 for a while...

So apologies for posting something at such a preliminary level, but I am very excited to be able to be collecting my own astro data once again, and wanted to post SOMETHING, anything, even if it is still at more of a 'how the sausage is made' level than the finished image. I have had an idea...

So I'm guessing many if not all of our accomplished astroimagers here might have already tumbled to the new version 2 Starnet release that just came out a little while ago. I just stumbled into it within the last week and was instantly very impressed with how much more capable it is over the...