I've been busy creating a space to store my telescope gear, books, etc. I call it my astronomy den. I wanted a space where I could escape...

NASA’s Voyager space probes, launched in 1977, continue to perform year after year. Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth and...

Back in the 1980's, one of my friends bought a telescope right around the time of Halley's Comet. It was a Celestron Comet Catcher,...

Today we look at NASA and its many space probe missions as a remarkable success, and for the most part, it really has been. Without...

I purchased Pixinsight back in September to learn and use fully with my astroimaging projects. Since picking this up, I have spent a fair...

When I mention the planet Saturn, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Many of you will say rings and that would be correct.  ...

I recently came across a data set that a user had made available for anyone to download and process to see what could be achieved by...

I’ve taken a lot of ribbing from some of the guys in my astronomy club for buying a Seestar S50. I have absolutely no regrets about...

I can go through countless threads of messages online with people praising refractors of all flavors for their pinpoint images, color...

How does climate relate to astronomy? You might be wondering what I am doing talking about things like this on my astronomy blog. Well...

Just imagine what it would be like to do updates on a computer with 68 KB of memory, with a processor speed of 250 KHz and a data...

No matter how you slice it, be prepared to spend some good money to build an imaging rig. There are a few basic areas that are the major...

This coming Saturday morning, October 14, 2023, for a brief time, the moon will pass in front of the sun. From a region along the path of...

A very important part of getting quality results in your astrophotography involves using good quality optics. Today's cameras can capture...

Astrophotography quickly becomes an expensive game. The reason for this is the number of premium pieces that must be collected to build a...

My final image that I will share from this year's SASP is the Eastern Veil nebula. I was quite pleased with this capture, done for 90...

M33 is one target that I have shot multiple times with the ASI533MC Pro. I have done it using the SN6 in 2021, and also with the ED80....

One of the important aspects to consider that is not discussed often enough is the size and weight of your imaging rig. Keeping your rig...

I shot 5 images at SASP 2023 this year. I did M33, The Veil Nebula, M45, M31, and the Crescent Nebula. I went deep on my images and I got...

SASP 2023 is now in the history books and will be remembered for the beautiful clear nights with dark skies and a lack of forest fire...