Hi, Last night was a reasonably good imaging night. I re-shot the Medusa Nebula. Results much better than my 2013 shot... New image: https://www.astroshow.com/Nebulae/SH2-274.html First shot I've take

Hi Bernard, Congratulations on your NGC5128 image in Feb 2020 issue of Astronomy magazine, page 70. Great detail in that shot. Wish they would have printed a larger image but it is really nice! They p

Welcome Bill and Tom! I grew up mostly in Eugene, Oregon. When I was 4, I got to see the Giacobinid (Draconid) Meteor Shower of 1946. I remember it vividly... My father had me chasing around the yard

Hi Bernard, Absolutely beautiful! Thanks, Howard

Thanks MUCH Bernard... Shooting M101 tonight... Will try to apply some of your techniques but I think I will still have a lot to learn before I can get within miles of your processing skill! Thanks! H

I will be looking forward to seeing your images! Thanks, Howard

Thanks Bernard and Dan, I used the latest eXcalibrator. I just tried it again and changed some settings so SExtractor was selected and so APASS button ungrayed and it worked! THANKS for indicating tha

Hi Bernard, Truly magnificent! Your processing is, as always, superb! Thanks, Howard

Just now catching up a bit... Truly spectacular Brian! Thanks, Howard

Hi all, I've been pretty inactive over the last few months. The prevalence of cloudiness during the preceding 8 or so months didn't help. Death of my wife in Nov 2017 also was difficult and more than

YES! Great work Bernard! Howard

Hi all, I just bought a SkyAlert Weather Monitor. Have not been down to the site to install it yet but I see at least one of you has this device and are displaying its results out on the internet. QUE

Truly spectacular Bernard. You just keep getting better and better! Thanks, Howard

Hi All, Here are some of the images I took of the Lunar Eclipse (greatly reduced size of course): They are all more red than they should be in my opinion. the ones labeled 9 through 18 were before the

Hi Gregg, Thanks for info. Yes. I was getting wildly varying color BEFORE the eclipse started and I think it was due to the varying cloud cover. This camera has always been very reliable with respect

Hi, I have an all-sky video with an image every 10 minutes taken at DSNM during the eclipse showing the cloud cover... I also took almost 300 images of the moon during that time using my ST-4000XCM si

Hi, The Meade LX-200 has a Periodic Error Correction (PEC) feature which you run in training mode then, after training, the Periodic Error is compensated for automatically by the system. I am able to

Hi, For what its worth: I have been trying to remote-troubleshoot a problem I suddenly encountered where I cannot communicate with my CGI mount, my Optec focuser, my camera, and my foster roof control

Hi Bernard, I often look at Arizona Sky Village data. 12 miles to the West: http://www.skyimager.net/weather/ASVweather1.html My Foster weather monitor at DSNM says 97.1% currently. It also says "Sens

WOW! instant turn-around!