We’ve been digesting things in terms of millions of years and even billions of years. After a while, the actual value of these big...

Since licensing PixInsight back in the Fall of 2024, I have really been working hard to learn how to use this application. This article...

We probably take for granted that we live on a planet with a warm interior that occasionally breaks through the hardened crust of...

What do dinosaurs and astronomy have in common? Turns out a lot more than we once thought.   Dinosaurs roamed the Earth for about 165...

I've been busy creating a space to store my telescope gear, books, etc. I call it my astronomy den. I wanted a space where I could escape...

NASA’s Voyager space probes, launched in 1977, continue to perform year after year. Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth and...

Back in the 1980's, one of my friends bought a telescope right around the time of Halley's Comet. It was a Celestron Comet Catcher,...

Today we look at NASA and its many space probe missions as a remarkable success, and for the most part, it really has been. Without...

I purchased Pixinsight back in September to learn and use fully with my astroimaging projects. Since picking this up, I have spent a fair...

When I mention the planet Saturn, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Many of you will say rings and that would be correct.  ...

I recently came across a data set that a user had made available for anyone to download and process to see what could be achieved by individuals who have more experience in processing. This data set was loaded with issues from frames with terrible gradients, incomplete data, severe vignetting and much more. In short, the images proved to be very challenging to work with. Because none of the data came with any calibration frames, I was pretty much left with what the author ha

I’ve taken a lot of ribbing from some of the guys in my astronomy club for buying a Seestar S50. I have absolutely no regrets about...

I can go through countless threads of messages online with people praising refractors of all flavors for their pinpoint images, color...

How does climate relate to astronomy? You might be wondering what I am doing talking about things like this on my astronomy blog. Well...

Just imagine what it would be like to do updates on a computer with 68 KB of memory, with a processor speed of 250 KHz and a data...

No matter how you slice it, be prepared to spend some good money to build an imaging rig. There are a few basic areas that are the major...

This coming Saturday morning, October 14, 2023, for a brief time, the moon will pass in front of the sun. From a region along the path of...

A very important part of getting quality results in your astrophotography involves using good quality optics. Today's cameras can capture...

Astrophotography quickly becomes an expensive game. The reason for this is the number of premium pieces that must be collected to build a...

My final image that I will share from this year's SASP is the Eastern Veil nebula. I was quite pleased with this capture, done for 90...