I created a new ad to run on SpaceWeather.com based on a flare that was caught on the Slooh.com Canary 5 Solar Telescope: The flare came from the active region AR3372 and was an...
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Encounter Between Mars and Messier 44
This is Mars, passing by Messier 44 – the Beehive Cluster: The encounter between the two objects lasted for three days, and this image was taken on the encounter’s second day. The telescope moved...
Using AutoIntegrate.js and Manual Processes In PixInsight To Process a Comet Image
Processing an image of a comet is not a straightforward process because the comet moves during your observation session. If you run AutoIntegrate.js on your images of the comet, the stars will be aligned,...
Telescope Live Adds Amazing CMOS Camera – Compare the Before and After Images
Telescope Live is in the process of switching over to CMOS cameras for all of their telescopes. Today, they released their first images using the new CMOS camera on their Chile One telescope. Swipe...
Foraxx Palette Script: Dynamic Narrowband Combinations
In June 2020, a blogger named The Coldest Nights published a post about combining narrowband images using dynamic PixelMath expressions using PixInsight. The article’s author said, “Channel combining is by far my favorite step...
NGC 1365 From the JWST
This is the core of NGC 1365, a double-barred galaxy in the Fornax constellation. The image was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and processed by myself: I put this image on its...
Region around Wray 17-96
This is the region around Wray 17-96, a star. The nebulosity makes this a very nice image. This was taken using Telescope Live using narrowband H-alpha, SIII, and OII filters and processed using PixInsight....
C/2017 K2 with M10
This is comet C/2017 K2 passing by Messier 10: This was taken using iTelescope.net’s T8 system on June 15, 2022 during their full moon Happy Hour so I got this image for free. The...
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds
The Large and Small Magellanic clouds are satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way galaxy. This is the Small Magellanic Cloud: There is a globular cluster at the image’s top edge – this is...
SH2-131 – Elephant Trunk Nebula
This is a widefield view of IC 1396, or the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula, in the constellation Cepheus. The Elephant’s Trunk is coming down from the top center of the image and is usually presented...
