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Month: August 2009
astrofoto.org down time
I had a rather long outage due to a botched upgrade from which I am still recovering. I had planned on upgrading from Fedora 8, to 9, then 10, and finally 11. You have to upgrade incrementally, but the first step failed part way through after having started installing packages. An attempt to retry crashed …
Double Cluster in Perseus
This is not the first time I took pictures of this cluster, but it is the first time I took a lot of exposures to insure I had plenty of data. These clusters go by multiple names. First is the Double Cluster so named for obvious reasons that it is two clusters close together in …
AstroTrac Performance
Well, the recent burst of image processing from my June images has revealed a few issues with my AstroTrac’s performance. Up until now, I’ve attributed the errors I’ve had to the tripod and head on which I mount the AstroTrac. However, at this point, I’m not sure that’s the whole story. To be sure, the …
Antares – Rho Ophiuchi Complex
This is one of my favorite areas of the sky and I first fell in love with the rich variation of color and texture after seeing an image taken by Akira Fuji. Ever since then, It’s been high on my list of areas I’d like to image. Unfortunately, it’s also rather difficult to do that …
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