Not the best conditions tonight… but after weeks of bad weather I tried it with M101 Pinwheel Galaxy at home. Anyway… I need to go up to a mountain again for shooting next time. The higher I am, the better the images đ Details
Reducing star size can helping highlight the main object like a Galaxy or a Nebula. PixInsight offers herefor a process called “Morphological Transformation”. On some images, I use it twice (example: Cygnus Loop). Note: Create every time a new Star Mask! Do not use the same mask for iterative transformations! Step-by-step M33 Triangulum Galaxy: StarMask […]
Locating deep sky objects without Go-To control is sometimes very exhausting and can be frustrating. With the EF 200mm f/2.8L and the Kenko 1.4x converter at 280mm I was for the first time in trouble to find an object… Some are very easy to find, if they have a bright star(s) nearby: NGC 7000 North America Nebula […]
A review of Stellarium has long been overdue… since I use it to plan all my astrophotography sessions. Stellarium is a rich feautered planetarium app with a very realistic sky, available for Windows, MacOS or Linux and it’s free! I use it frequently for searching new objects for photography. It’s fun! If you want use Stellarium to plan your sessions […]
Images taken with the Astronomik CLS-CCD Filter have a very strong color tint. In my case the tint was cyan and now green with the modified EOS 70D. Anyway, PixInsight offers many ways to calibrate the stacked image. I’ll show here one possible process (wich I also use for my images). Note: Because I use a modified […]
For presenting my first retrospective video (and PixInsight tutorials and probably other things…) I just created a YouTube channel! From now on the current retrospective video will be played on my blog homepage / slideshow page. I hope I’ll find out how to control the audio… đ If you enjoy it, like it and/or subscribe to […]
With the Star Adventurer I’m very mobile. Build up in about 10 minutes! So I’m not bound to a single place. But most of the time I’m on my balcony in Derendingen, Solothurn (444m Alt.), especially during the work days. Unfortunately my field of view is limited to North and East, with best view towards […]
After a nightly session the first thing to do is to analyse the lights. This can be done visually or mathematically. Or both đ First of all I pre-sort the lights visually. But since I use an AutoGuider I can use almost every light frame. Only if there are air planes or satellites I’ll sort […]
My 2016 retrospective… ok, with one exception… the Monkey Head Nebula đ All images taken with: Star Adventurer and Lacerta MGEN2 Canon EOS 70D(a) Canon EF 400mm f/5.6L Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L with Kenko 1.4x Converter (Cygnus Loop)
Cold, but wonderful start in 2017 on Gurnigel đ Details
