Sky and Rockets

I setup for imaging NEOWISE from my home site on July 26 and the 27th.  Placed my Canon50D piggyback on the GT102 with my Canon 100mm lens. ...

Finally, NEOWISE is high enough that I can capture it from my home with the large telescope mount.  The sky wasn't very good though, lot...

Well, I took another shot at getting a better image.  Processed the 22 x 30sec images taken around 9:45PM.  Since there were more subs the n...

On July 18, 2020, the skies were rather clear and I decided to return to my church's property with my portable telescope setup (William ...

On July 15th I arrived at CrossLife Bible Church, Westminster MD, my home church, for our normal prayer group meeting at 6:30 PM.  The servi...

Early this morning I was able to capture some initial images of C/2020 F3 NEOWISE.  I had provided some charts in my previous post and with ...

Well, surprise, surprise ... one of the newly discovered comets might actually be visible and is not breaking up.  With the demise of ATLAS ...

The new mount is performing admirably. Still a few items to take care of and calibrate, but the full functionality is working just fine. F...

Yes, the emphasis is on the word 'day'. One of the unique capabilities of the Astro-Physics mount is that it can allow you to star...

Earlier this month I spent some time installing my Off Axis Guider (OAG) on the Edge11.  With new spacers I was able to get the OAG to work ...

The Magic of Image Processing - Part I Over the years I have been asked by friends to explain how I get my beautiful astro-photos, especia...