I managed to get a quick pic of the Sun today in a hazy gap in thick cloud. The disk is much quieter than it has been for a while. ARs 3654 and 3655 are passing over the Sun’s limb. Some very small spots (ARs 3660, 3661, 3662) are emerging. Zoom for more detail.
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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