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What a very cool image, and it is quite clear why it has the common name it has!

Thanks; I just uploaded a new version of the app, speeding up launch and fixing a few little issues I discovered.

Over the past several years I have found myself perusing various astrophotography forums and seeing images that I'd like to capture myself. But then when I went to my planning software I had a hard time making sure that my telescope was aimed at the right part of the sky. That led me to work...

As far as the S50 Pro is concerned, I don't see a use case for me for it. As it is my S50 spends most of its time idle, so I hardly can get a new telescope into the house without a serious talking-to from my spouse....

I just used my recently-released freeware application, AstroFrame, to identify the image you presented, so I now know the answer (and I was way off). If anyone's interested in it, you can download it for Mac or Windows (I'm not a notarised Apple developer, so it isn't signed) at...

How fun! For me, I prefer the small star version, and I suspect that it might be the Elephant's Trunk nebula but it's certainly a northern-hemisphere target, so I'm a bit out of my depth.

I have been trying to collect enough data on this target to make a worthwhile image for a few weeks, but it only rises above my house late at night, and then before long it crosses the meridian, and the SCT I needed to use to shoot it has been giving me trouble with focus, especially after a...

It's a simple fix--just a matter of putting the right settings into the AM5 mount app, but it was not immediately obvious that it needs to be done. I'm also using a new Svbony switch to power everything, and that has a rather opaque interface, too, but someone created an alternative that I...

Thank you, but you may regret offering to help! As it is, I was using the Target Scheduler this past week, giving it two targets to keep in mind for me, the Corona Australis that I posted and M8 and M20. Unfortunately, I failed to include in the instructions the requirement that M8/M20 be above...

Yeah, it was quite the domino tumble! And now I am toying with replacing the ASIAIR on my other rig with a NINA installation too...

I have made the switch from ASIAIR-assisted imaging to the far more powerful, but far more complicated, NINA system. This was prompted by my buying a rotator for my rig, which meant ditching an off-axis guider, which meant adding a guide scope, which led to my running out of USB ports, which...

That's really beautiful--I love a good dark nebula, and having the Flaming Skull in the frame makes for a lovely composition. Well done!

Thank you on both counts--ZWO sent me a replacement controller and I also ordered a second unit, so I'm well covered for filter wheels now!

As you may know (or maybe not) I lived in China for a long time, and the one thing that I think can be reliably said about Chinese companies is that they don't tend to be customer-focused in the way that Western businesses tend to be. I think that ZWO have done an amazing job in an extremely...

When my mom and dad were relatively newly married and money was tight, my father returned from a business trip to Italy with the nicest gift for my mother that he thought he could afford--a pair of handmaid yellow gloves from Florence. What he hadn't counted on, unfortunately, was that you don't...

Same here--I was more interested in the flashier and more colourful nebulae than boring old clusters, but I have learned to appreciate clusters now and really enjoy shooting them. And it doesn't hurt that you don't need multiple nights to capture them!

I have been putting together a book of astro images after having been asked by quite a few guests if they could buy such a thing from me. In the course of putting this together and deciding what to include, I knew I had to include the Jewel Box Cluster, since it was one of the things that, on...

Thank you very much!

How nice to be thought of! Thank you for the nice comments!

On Sunday night I saw a post from a photographer I follow who is based in Twizel, in the Mackenzie Country of the South Island of New Zealand, around 90 minutes from my home in Oamaru, saying that conditions were promising for a hoarfrost to form overnight. So I threw caution to the wind and the...