Final dome maintenance – December 20, 2019
The day comes at last! Jacking up the dome a second time to replace the steel ring sections that allow the dome to ride on the track bearings. Thanks again…
M45 The Pleiades cluster redux
Today I ran my raw sub frames of M45 The Pleiades cluster through the new processing workflow. These were images taken on April 2, 2019. I believe there are more…
Applying the new post processing techniques
While I wait out the weather problems and dome maintenance issues, I've been applying some of the new techniques I learned at Kitt Peak to images I've previously taken. PixInsight…
Weather and maintenance woes
The weather outside has been frightful, well cloudy, rainy etc. Early snowfall has not made for great observing. But there was the occasional good day to try to get some…