Thinking of taking a cruise, but you are leaving your telescope gear at home because you’re not sure how and where you can use it? Don’t! As part of Springer Publishing’s The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series, Greg Redfern has written “Cruise Ship Astronomy and Astrophotography” which offers a how-to […]
INDIGO is a system of standards and frameworks for multiplatform and distributed astronomy software development designed to scale with a specific user’s needs. INDIGO is a product of the INDIGO initiative, group of amateur/professional astronomers, software developers and hardware vendors The INDIGO initiative is supported by a number of astronomy […]
The Texas Star Party (TSP) is almost here! The annual event attracts more than 500 amateur astronomers from across the US who enjoy extremely dark skies packaged together with a number of events. The event will be held on April 28-May 5 at the Prude Ranch near Fort Davis Texas. […]
Every year since 1997, the Astronomischer Arbeitskreis Salzkammergut astronomy club in Austria has published the CCD-Guide in DVD format, which assists astrophotographers in planning their imaging projects. Besides a huge number of reference images, the CCD-Guide contains software to find images, to view images and to obtain all necessary data. […]
nPAE Precision Astro Engineering is hosting an astrophotography contest focusing on Northern Hemisphere Objects. The competition is free to enter, is open to all astrophotographers and group entries are also welcome. The closing date for submissions is March 31, 2019 with the winner announced May 1st. Photos can be of […]
In understanding my approach towards creating SkyTools 4 Imaging, its worth considering how major professional observatories, such as ESO, use mathematical models of their telescope and instruments to plan their observations. It is useful to know the image scale, what exposure times to use, whether a star will bloom or […]
Warren Keller and Ron Brecher with IP4AP are teaming up again to present a three-day PixInsight workshop in Dallas, Texas on March 22-24, 2019. The workshop will be held at Spring Creek Academy, 6000 Custer Rd., Bldg. 5, Plano, TX, 75023, USA and is limited to 30 attendees. If you’re […]
“By Matt Harmston” I Want to Image the Skies, But Do I have to Process My Images? I used to think to myself, “Everything we see in the magazines and online (that isn’t sketched) shows processed images, but what is the big deal with all of this processing?” What did […]
Rigel Systems recently introduced the PulsGuide Jr ($39.95US), a shorter (by 1/2 inch) version of its popular PulsGuide guiding telescope eyepiece illuminator for finders. Both illuminators are designed to attach onto the illuminator port of an eyepiece equipped with crosshair or micrometer reticle. These eyepieces are used for guiding during […]
Warren Keller and Ron Brecher with IP4AP are teaming up again to present a three-day PixInsight workshop in Mesa, Arizona, September 21-23, 2018 and in Lake Forest, California September 28-30, 2018. If you’re new to image processing, PixInsight is a very powerful and much less expensive alternative to Photoshop. It is […]
The Astronomik XT Clip Filters are specifically designed to deliver widefield images with crisp and sharp stars right to the edge of the field. Astronomik’s popular original Clip Filters are well known tools among astrophotographers worldwide, but unfortunately, their effectiveness does not fully extend to the very short focal lengths […]
Takahashi Epsilon-130D Astrograph: Takahashi first introduced their Epsilon Series flat-field hyperbolic astrographs in the mid 1980’s with the Epsilon-130 offering the smallest aperture and most portable of the series. The Epsilon optical system features a hyperbolic primary and a digital corrector to produce a flat field image that excels for […]