I'm trying some new processing techniques and I'm pleased with the results. Compare this very marginal and noisy image of the Soul Nebula with the reprocessed version. I took the original image and ran it through Astroflat Pro and noise reduction in Affinity Photo. The result is much improved. The first picture is the original image. Click on the images to see the full size examples and to get the best idea of how this technique worked.
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
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The Pelican Nebula with the Dwarf 3
This is a 4.5 hour integration of the Pelican Nebula, taken with a Dwarf 3 scope. Stacked and processed in Stellar Studio and Photoshop PS.
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I had a couple of emails asking how to defork an ETX telescope. The ETX 90 and ETX 125 were optically superb scopes, but the mounts left a...
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M17, the Omega Nebula (among other names). M17 is one of the brightest and most massive stellar nurseries in the galaxy. The open cluster o...
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The ZEQ25 doing its stuff on a cold night--imaging the Orion Nebula with an 8 inch f/4 astrograph. Note the lovely Christmas rug :) As ...


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