This is the Spaghetti Nebula, or SH2-240, discovered in 1952: This is a very dim nebula, which makes it difficult to observe. The nebula is a supernova remnant estimated to be about 3,000 light...
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Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction
This is Saturn and Jupiter along with its moons as they appeared December 20, 2020: Saturn is at the upper-left and Jupiter and three of its moons are at teh lower-right of the image....
Using PixInsight’s DynamicBackgroundExtraction To Correct Images
The DynamicBackgroundExtraction process, or DBE, is a powerful process in PixInsight that corrects a broad range of common issues like gradients, vignetting, and other flat field problems. It is recommended to use DBE early in...
AR 2786 and Friends
The Sun is sporting three sunspots in this image – the Sun hasn’t been this active in years: The sunspots are as follows: AR2786 on the far left, AR2785 next, followed by AR2783 on...
Giant Sunspot AR2788 Gets Companion AR2799
It looks like AR2788 has a companion now: AR2799: The new sunspot appeared overnight – AR2788 is at the bottom right and AR2779 is to the left. These two sunspots are part of solar...
Sunspot AR2778
This is sunspot AR2778, at the lower-right part of the image, near the logo: This sunspot is huge – about 100,000km across and it is made up of about 12 cores. According to Spaceweather.com,...
Processing A Slooh.com Image For Astrophotography – Part 4
This is the last article in the series about processing Slooh.com PNG images. In this article you’ll learn how to recover an image that has a radial gradient on it. A radial gradient is...
Transit of Mercury Across the Sun – November 2019
This image is a composite of Mercury transiting the Sun during November 11, 2019: This image is made up of a number of images taken using the Slooh.com Solar telescope during the approximately five...
Processing A Slooh.com Image For Astrophotography – Part 3
In this article, you’ll learn how to process a Slooh.com PNG images of a faint nebula by performing a nonlinear stretch on the luminance image using Curves and Levels and you’ll perform a nonlinear...
Comet Neowise Using Slooh.com
This is the famous comet Neowise, or comet C/2020 F3, using aSlooh.com telescope: This was taken using Slooh.com’s Canary Three telescope which as an OSC color camera attached to it. This post provides you...
