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...
by Joey | Apr 24, 2022 | Technical Monkey
So last night I was able to make it out to the GNTO and worked on my pinched optics. It’s been pretty bad, to say the least as you can see by my Starship Enterprise looking stars Beam me up, Scotty… I made some initial adjustments as all the screws were...
