Hi all. So we finally had a little cooperation with the weather a couple nights ago. I captured the Eagle Nebula, AKA Pillars of Creation. This is a stack of 25x60sec shots with Darks and Bias added.
Hi Jim. That is the Lagoon. I always try and process for true color. It takes many steps(Layer work) in Photoshop. I personally don't like the look of a cooler image. A cooler image is to blue and NOT the correct color of a night sky. I've seen to many Milky Way photos where people PP a sky to...
Thanks Jim. I went crazy with all kinds of gear with my regular photography. I didn't want to do that with Astro. Having laptops ,CCD's, Auto guiding cam's, wires all over the place is not my idea of fun. Others my think it is and that's just fine.
Hi all. Haven't been around here too much. I've been pretty busy with my Facebook group I run. We finally had a couple good nights so I turned my attention to the MW for the first time this season. This is at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI.
Forget Number one. You do not need to set the polar scope to 0 at the top and and 6 at the bottom. That has nothing to do with the alignment procedure. You will just place Polaris in the correct position on the time circle on an App. What is most important is to align the polar scope to the...
There is an issue with Uploading Photos (attachjments). I am not sure what the problem is, and I am looking into it. You can still try to Create your Threads and Upload your Photos, but it is hanging up during the Upload.