Post collimation, on Saturday August 26th, I had a reasonabky decent sky with an 11 day gibbous moon in the sky, and I was imaging from...

I must admit, this appeared to be a daunting task at first examination. I did a lot of reading and watched some videos. The more I read...

On Thursday, August 17th I got about an hour’s worth of clear sky – just enough to point my telescope at Vega as a collimation target...

The best part about building a new imaging system from scratch is that you get to start with a clean slate and window shop while you...

One of the most important and most affordable first steps that you can take on the road to getting better astro images is to start by...

When we look up at the sky, we think that space is a very busy place because we see so many stars. When we look more closely, we see all...

These are the additional collection of frames you will want to shoot each time you image in order to post process your images...

I will be at the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party from Aug 17 to Aug 20th this year and I am bringing the roadshow, including the Chevy G...

Voyager 2 is now 12 billion miles from Earth. It was launched on August 20, 1977, some 46 years ago and only recently lost contact wit...

On Saturday, July 22 I finally got a decent evening with clear sky to get out with the Ultima 8 converted Hyperstar V4. The bar was set...

Credit: kwest/Shutterstock.com One of the arguments that I will often hear if I mention the concept of climate change is that “the...

In order to convert my Ultima 8 into a Hyperstar ready OTA, we had to remove the corrector plate, and then disassemble the factory inner...

I am about to find out what the Hyperstar is all about first hand. I have ordered one and I have sold my SN6 as well, so I am going all...

Meade LXD75SN6 Isn’t it strange how time and experience change our perspective on what we want to accomplish with amateur astronomy? All...

About half of all stars in our known universe are part of a binary or multiple star system. This opens a whole new spectrum of...

Globular clusters are the crown jewels of the universe. These immense objects that are made up of millions of stars condensed in a...

Our sun is a star in the Milky Way galaxy. It is one star of about 100 billion stars. That number written out would be 100,000,000,000....

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Our Sun is a typical G2 star, about 4.5 billion years old, a yellow dwarf star that occupies a region of the Orion spur, that extends...

Some Background on Open Star Clusters Open star clusters vary considerably from globular star clusters. For starters, where the stars in...