Most stars you see in the night sky are actually made up of multiple stars – in fact, about 85% of stars are made up of at least two star systems (binary star) and...
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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 Slooh.com and book missions. While this is very helpful, especially when you are away...
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 called Mare, meaning ‘sea’ in Latin – these are regions formed as a result...
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, is usually presented alone because it is an impressive galaxy with lots of nice...
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 on bringing out the details of the nebula. As pictured here, the nebula spans...
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 over several hours and presented here in the Hubble Palette (SHO). There are actually...
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): The dragons are clearly visible at the center of the image – locked in...
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 desktop background. This article explains how you can adapt the image to your desktop...
Full Moon
This is the full moon as seen on September 20 2021 from Slooh.com’s Canary Islands observatory: The darker regions on the moon are called Mare, or ‘sea’ in Latin. These Mare formed as a...
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 there’s nothing to install on your system. The workflow uses JS9 to combine and...
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