Guided by the Stars: My Walk with iOptron

Back in October 2020, my astrophotography journey began with something simple and sentimental: a homemade barn door tracker, lovingly built by my father-in-law. I still have it today and yes, I still love it! That little tracker launched me into a deep obsession with...

How AI Helped Me Choose the Best Telescope

Preface Ok here I am again debating my next telescope, and let me tell you it's been no picnic trying to choose the right scope. As a technical driven website I am trying to weigh all the Pros and Cons of each vendor technically and pick the right scope for...

Did QHYCCD just kill ZWO ASIAIR?

So I am always looking for new stuff and happened to run into Dylan's video on QUARCS. I joined up on Discord and tested out the image but it didn't work on my ASIAIR modded RPi5 but it did work on the stock ASAIR Pro. The big deal here is QUARCS will run from a...
ASIAir Pro + WiFi Adapter

ASIAir Pro + WiFi Adapter

So my Astro Rig is currently offline for the time being as I sold off a bunch of my gear and have a lot more coming in! There will be YouTube videos and website posts to follow. So while I have been offline I wanted to get rid of the secondary Wi-Fi router I had set...

Choices…Choices Everywhere

Choices…Choices Everywhere

So it's been over a month since I posted. Also, a month since I have been able to really capture anything at all due to the nasty weather. I have a handful of subs but maybe 16 subs usable against several objects which is just not enough. It's given me time to really...

PixInsight + Ubuntu = Love

PixInsight + Ubuntu = Love

It's been a while since I posted and thought I would throw out a post. So as I continue to shoot the stars and enjoy the process of capturing the heavens above, I wanted to see if I could speed up PixInsight which is the application I use to process my hours of...

Using PixInsight with the Rosette Nebula

Using PixInsight with the Rosette Nebula

Alright, here we go again sharing on YouTube and using PixInsight. The data and video are a quick 10,000ft view of PixInsight and how I use it to process images. Through the videos I discussed links I whould share. Here are those links. Links I speak about in YouTube...

Optolong L-eXtreme

Optolong L-eXtreme

Once again time to fork out more money from my poor wallet and spend it on my rig. This time I have spent my precious money on an Optolong L-eXtreme Dual-band filter. What this filter will do for my setup is it allows my new ASI533 OSC (One-Shot Color) camera to be...

ZWO ASI533MC Pro

ZWO ASI533MC Pro

I recently upgraded my rig once again. This time with the ZWO ASI533MC Pro one shoot color (OSC) cooled Astro camera. What makes this OSC so lovely is the ability to cool the camera. What cooling does is helps with the noise reduction for images of deep space objects...

ZWO ASI Air Demo

ZWO ASI Air Demo

So a handful of users wanted me to show off my rig on the CloudyNights forum. I took some time to walk through all the hardware and software and decided to show it off using YouTube. It's a total of 6 videos in the playlist....

Fo Drizzle my Nizzle

Fo Drizzle my Nizzle

So as I continue to learn more about PixInsight and learn more about capturing the heavens above I have now learned about Drizzle. What is Drizzle you ask? Drizzle (or DRIZZLE) is a digital image processing method for the linear reconstruction...

Processing the Stars | M31

Processing the Stars | M31

PREFACE My favorite forum I am on these days is Cloudy Nights (CN). It has a lot of fantastic people all working together to enjoy the stars and learn together. I mostly spend my time learning and helping where I can at the Beginning Deep Sky Imaging section. So what...