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Month: December 2021
Triangulum Dust Clouds
I subscribed to Adam Block’s online tutorials and have been working my way through them. It’s a long, slow process. He’s incredibly thorough, sometimes painfully so, though I supposed that’s better than the opposite (skimming over things so fast you can’t follow along). So while I’m nowhere near finished with the tutorials, naturally I had …
M33 and Triangulum Region
This was a “filler” project; I was setting up to image further east, an object that was still below the horizon, but had time to kill and realized that M33 and the core of the rather small Triangulum constellation would fill the frame of my Canon T6i with the 85mm Rokinon lens. So, why not? …
Choices, choices, choices (in imaging processing)
One of the wonderful problems that has become more apparent with digital imaging with modern optics is high quality images with lots of stars. Back the dark(room) ages with film, it seemed that most images didn’t really pick up that many of the fainter stars. I can make up some really smart sounding reason for …
Rosette Nebula (NGC 2238)
It was the end of the night really, and as the Earth rotated, my real target had moved behind the neighboring apartment, but the night was still dark (well, as dark as it gets is Brooklyn, which is not very), so I pointed to the Rosette as a good target for imaging with the narrowband …