marketplace minefield
Double edged Facebook Marketplace is an interesting place to do business, and in attempts to thin down my various collections, it has been incredibly useful. From one perspective it offers a really quick, and easy method of reaching thousands of potential buyers completely free. But that same level broad exposure brings with it other challenges,…
Darks, flats, bias, Lights & Depression
Testing Calibration Tonight it was clear, and although the conditions were not great, I found myself sat in front of the Redcat Edition, ZWO AM5N Mount, running through the Polar Alignment process. Overall the visibility and “seeing” was very poor. The Moon was very bright, and everyone around us has their fires going, resulting in…
Master Calibration Frames with ASI294MC Pro: A Beginner’s Guide – Written by a beginner
Background I’ve read a vast amount of wisdom relating to creating calibration frames on the ASI294MC Pro camera. The idea behind calibration frames is that they are stacked with the actual photography of nebulas, galaxies etc. and the calibration frames help the stacking algorithm to remove known noise. It is well known that the 294…
Still learning
What’s Happening ? The photo above is the result of quite a few hours spent learning some new software, with a goal of improving my image processing. This is not just new software however, it’s a complete change in process, and getting to understand the process has taken an age. However, I think this has…
GEAR – ZWO ASI294MC Pro Cooled camera
I bought this camera for quite a few reasons, none of which were terribly logical, I guess it was mostly just because I liked the Red !!! The 294MC Pro was the right price, it was in stock, it was cooled, and it looked like it would give me lots of pixels, with great results,…
ITS CLEAR !!!!
Tonight was an important milestone for me, as I used the “Dark Frames” I created for the ASI294MC Pro Camera. This means the freshly created Dark calibration frames were stacked along with the forty four, three minute exposures I took of the Herschel Ray super nova remnant. I will not know what sort of difference…
Another cloudy day
Today, driving home from the office, the sky looked promising, and I began to flirt with the idea that perhaps tonight is finally a night for astronomy after days of heavy rain and clouds. I was excited to spend more time photographing the Galaxy (NGC 4945) I started a little while ago. In keeping with…
New New Blog
Back in 2015 I started a blog. I also commenced a medically assisted Gender Transition. At one point the blog site was getting between 10,000 and 12,000 hits a month. There were hundreds of subscribers, and lots of comments and engagements. It ran until 2019, when I was fed up with the mounting hosting fees,…
Clear Skies Tonight ?
With a little good fortune tonight will give me an opportunity to get outside with some Telescopes and continue learning. The topic of Calibration Frames is uppermost in my mind, I recently created a set of “Dark Frames” for a couple of my imaging systems. In theory this should really help with the final image…
First Christmas………
This time of year means lots of things to lots of people…. I make no secret of my belief that the Christmas Story is a charming tale but rather nonsensical. An enduring popular fable, that is sadly morphed beyond recognition by several centuries of manipulation by well meaning, and self serving, organisations or people. Before…
- marketplace minefield
- Darks, flats, bias, Lights & Depression
- Master Calibration Frames with ASI294MC Pro: A Beginner’s Guide – Written by a beginner
- Still learning
- GEAR – ZWO ASI294MC Pro Cooled camera
- ITS CLEAR !!!!
- Another cloudy day
- New New Blog
- Clear Skies Tonight ?
- First Christmas………