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Have you ever gazed up at the night sky and wished you could capture its breathtaking beauty? Dreamed of exploring distant galaxies and nebulae from the comfort of your own home? Now you can, even without expensive equipment or travel, thanks to amazing remote telescope services like Slooh.com, iTelescope.net, Telescope Live, the MicroObservatory, and even the incredible James Webb Space Telescope!

Hi, I’m Erik Westermann, an amateur astronomer and passionate astrophotographer. I created this site to share my knowledge and help you discover the wonders of remote astrophotography using these powerful online platforms. I’ll guide you through selecting the right service for your needs, planning your observations, and processing your raw images into breathtaking works of art.

No prior experience? No problem! My step-by-step tutorials and comprehensive guides will walk you through everything you need to know, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced astrophotographer looking to explore new horizons.

Ready to start your cosmic journey? Explore my blog, download my free book: Remote Astrophotography Using Slooh.com, and unlock the secrets of the universe with me. Let’s capture the cosmos together, one click at a time!

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Sun: Dec 22, 2021, Featuring 9 Sunspots
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Sun: Dec 22, 2021, Featuring 9 Sunspots

The sun is the most active than it has been in years - there are nine active regions on the...
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Lunar Eclipse Nov 19, 2021

This is an image from the moment of the peak eclipse of the lunar eclipse of November 19. 2021 :...
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Enhancing Faint Details In Your Astro Images

Sometimes your image contains a faint aspect, like a nebula or galaxy, and you'd like to enhance just the faint...
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Creating Star Spikes: Reliable Method

I have written before about creating star spikes, or the star diffraction effect, but that method was not very reliable....
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Using Photopea.com To Combine Three Mono Images Into One RGB

Combining three mono images into one RGB is a common problem. Fortunately, the solution is very straightforward. This article walks...
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Comet C/2020 F8 – SWAN
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Comet C/2020 F8 – SWAN

This is comet C/2020 F8 SWAN, as observed on April 30, 2020: This image was taken using the Slooh.com Canary...
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Creating an LRGB Image Using DeepSkyStacker, JS9, and Photopea.com

Often when taking exposures you end up with multiple files per color. DeepSkyStacker is perfect for stacking multiple images. This...
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Stretching and Combining Images Using Photopea.com

This article is a continuation of the article Creating an RGB Image Using DeepSkyStacker and GIMP, except instead of using...
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Messier 46 and NGC 2438
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Messier 46 and NGC 2438

This is Messier 46 and NGC 2438: Messier 46 is the open cluster of colorful stars and NGC 2438 is...
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Recovering Blurry or Smeared Stars

Sometimes there’s wind during your observation and your image is good, except for elongated, smeared, or blurry stars. You could...
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Observing Double/Multiple Star Systems

Most stars you see in the night sky are actually made up of multiple stars – in fact, about 85%...
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Processing Slooh.com PNG Images on Your Phone or iPad – The Basics

Many of us today are using mobile devices like Android phones, iPhones, and iPads to do things like login to...
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Colorized Waxing Gibbous Moon with Stars
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Colorized Waxing Gibbous Moon with Stars

This is the waxing gibbous moon, 8 days past new, as seen on October 14, 2021: The darker regions are...
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Widefield view of NGC 253
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Widefield view of NGC 253

This is a widefield view of NGC 253 (bottom left) and NGC 288 (top right): NGC 253, the Sculptor galaxy,...
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Witch Head Nebula – IC 2118
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Witch Head Nebula – IC 2118

This is the Witch Head nebula: This is a faint target so I focused a lot of the processing effort...
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Widefield NGC 7000 – the North America Nebula
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Widefield NGC 7000 – the North America Nebula

This is a widefield view of the North America nebula and the surrounding region. This is a narrowband image taken...
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NGC 6188 – Fighting Dragons of Ara
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NGC 6188 – Fighting Dragons of Ara

This is a wide field view of NGC 6188, imaged in narrowband and presented here in the Hubble Palette (SHO):...
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Veil Nebula Complex Desktop Background

I took a fantastic narrowband picture of the Veil Nebula complex and thought it would look nice as my computer’s...
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Full Moon
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Full Moon

This is the full moon as seen on September 20 2021 from Slooh.com’s Canary Islands observatory: The darker regions on...
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Processing Workflow: NGC 300 Using JS9 and Photopea.com

This article is a detailed workflow for processing a sample observation of NGC 300 using freely available online tools, so...
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