The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
The Whole Veil
This is a 2 hour mosaic of the Veil Nebula and Pickering’s Triangle. Stacked in Megastack with initial processing in Stellar Studio and finished in Photoshop.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
The North America Nebula
It’s remarkable how far small scopes and semi-automated processing have advanced. I am loving the new Dwarf 3 software update. This image is a scheduled mosaic of the North America Nebula using the D3. The image is 140 x 45s mosaic frames. I stacked it in Megastack and did initial processing in Stellar Studio—both provided woth the D3. Final processing was in PS Express. I’m quite pleased with the result.
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The Whole Veil
This is a 2 hour mosaic of the Veil Nebula and Pickering’s Triangle. Stacked in Megastack with initial processing in Stellar Studio and fini...

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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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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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One of the great things about being a part of an online community of people with similar interests is that you learn a lot from people who a...