Month: May 2025
C/2023 A3 Processing
This took a while to work through. There are a lot of tips on processing comet images and PixInsight makes it easy for the most part, but I found the combination of untracked DSLR images from Brooklyn skies a bit too challenging to be able to separate out the comet from the background and get …
Finding C/2023 A3 in October from Bay Ridge
Back in October, this comet made an appearance first in the morning sky (though weather and circumstance prevented me from seeing it then), then in the evening sky. Finding this comet to take pictures was a challenge from Brooklyn. Anything astronomy is a challenge from Brooklyn. The first day with reasonable weather to see it …
C/2023 A3 from Brooklyn
I’m still working to see how much I can draw out of the data for this one, but like most images taken from Brooklyn, it’s difficult to get through the effects of ligh pollution. The pictures were take back on Oct 16, 2024, but I’m just now getting around to doing anything with them. What …