Thursday, 12 March 2026

The Veil nebulae and Pickering's Triangle

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Data from November 17th and 19th 2025 were used for this image. The equipment used were an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED doublet refractor wit...
Saturday, 7 March 2026

The Christmas tree cluster (NGC2264) and associated nebulosity with duo-band filters

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Using an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED doublet refractor with field-flattener, a Pegasus FocusCube v2 focuser, an Altair Hypercam 533C 14 bit ...
Friday, 6 March 2026

The Seagull and Rosette nebulae with Altair duo-band filters

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The equipment used was an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED doublet refractor with field-flattener, a Pegasus FocusCube v2 focuser, an Altair Hype...
Tuesday, 3 March 2026

AstroPicsLab image processing software

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Every so often I come across a piece of image processing software that I find meets its aims very well. Such a program is the freeware/donat...
Monday, 9 February 2026

Feature release of AstroDMx Capture Version: 2.16.2 (All Platforms)

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Nicola has released a new version of AstroDMx Capture For  Linux x86-64 • Linux ARM • macOS x-86 • Apple silicon • Windows  Mutatis mutandis...
Saturday, 7 February 2026

LuckyStackWorker working on nebulosity

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There is a cross-platform tool called 'LuckyStackWorker" for processing stacked solar, lunar and planetary images and also for stac...
Monday, 2 February 2026

Producing 'RGB' stars from Ha, O3 and S2 data

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When we are doing narrowband imaging we frequently don’t have time to do separate RGB imaging for the stars. This is due to a number of reas...
Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Manipulation of narrowband palettes

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Although a lot of the work done here could possibly be done in a single application, I find the most comfortable workflow involves the use o...