by Joey | Aug 6, 2022 | Technical Monkey
So it begins, the ever-changing revolving door of Astrophotography. I recently gave a speech at ALCON 2022 All about the ZWO ASAIR Pro and Plus and the Open Astro Initiative https://www.openastro.net/ Welcome to ALCON 2022 So what is the Open Astro Initiative all...
by Joey | Jun 14, 2022 | Technical Monkey
So in my last article, I posted about increasing the speed of StarNet++ as long as you have a CUDA-enabled NVIDIA Graphics Card. This article is about speeding up PixInsight with a little thing called RAM Disk. What doe this cost? Well, some time to set up and 10GB...
by Joey | Jun 5, 2022 | Technical Monkey
So in the never-ending need to go faster with processing images, I purchased a new computer. The Dell XPS 8950 to be exact. I was going to build a PC but after pricing it all out Dell was the cheaper route to go and it included one year of pro support and Windows 11...
by Joey | May 28, 2022 | Technical Monkey
Since I sent back what was supposed to be my forever scope I ended up pulling the trigger on the bigger brother to my Z61II and ordered the Z81 from Agena Astro. It arrived on May the 4th be with you. What I should know by now after dealing with the same issue with...
by Joey | May 26, 2022 | Technical Monkey
So I have finally purchased a light panel. It set me back $17.98 from Amazon *The link does not give me money it’s linked with smile amazon so you can donate to a charity of your choice. It’s freaking really nice as it has a 5v connector so I can connect...
