Russell Croman is well-known in the astrophotography world, not just for being an amazing astrophotographer, but for releasing incredible tools that are genuine game changers when processing your astrophotography images. His latest tool, Blur XTerminator, is no exception to this rule. What Russell has created is a tool that will transform your astro images and bring them into much sharper focus than ever before!
It’s no secret that PixInsight is very powerful, possibly even THE VERY BEST post-processing software for astrophotography. Yet many people, especially beginners, can be put off by it as it doesn’t feel as intuitive as other software, and the sheer scale and complexity of PixInsight means that people often don’t know where to begin.
That’s where this post comes in!
For the first time since its launch in December 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found its first planet orbiting a star, researchers have confirmed. The planet has been formally classified as LHS 475 b, and shared many similarities … Read More
The aim of Telescope Live is to make astrophotography accessible to all. It does this by having tier based subscriptions available as bronze, silver, gold, platinum and diamond. With the bronze membership costing only £4 per month, it’s certainly an attractive option to many astrophotographers who aren’t fortunate enough to live in areas with over 250 clear nights each year – in fact, as I write this, I haven’t had a clear sky for over a month!
Winter is an exciting time in astrophotography. Not only are the nights longer, but there are some of the absolute best deep sky astrophotography targets available to image at this time of year!
This is a list that is accessible for everyone, no matter what equipment you’re using. You might think there are some obvious targets missing from the list, so do leave a comment to let me know what your favourite winter astrophotography targets are!
Is astrophotography hard? Well honestly, it depends.
Seriously though, if you want to be an astrophotographer you need to be so many things. I don’t say this to put anyone off, just to set expectations going in. This is hobby is hard but it’s equally so rewarding. When you get it right the universe will repay you 10-fold – I promise.
I’ve put together a small list of tips. This list could’ve easily been 20 long so I’ve tried to pull out ones that I found to be the key to my own astrophotography and I hope you find them useful.
While I personally enjoy the summer months for the BBQs and warm weather, it’s not the best time of year for astrophotography at my latitude due to the loss of astro dark. However, for those of you at lower latitudes … Read More
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were released earlier this week. As with other NASA missions, they have made this data available to the public so that we can have our own go at processing these incredible images! And it’s absolutely free!
At the time of writing, downloading these files isn’t as simple as pressing a download button on a webpage. It requires opening a .sh file, which is a Unix shell script file that Windows cannot read natively. All is not lost, however, us Windows users can still download this data! We just have to go through an extra hoop to get it.
I think power is a topic that’s often over looked and not something you see spoken about very much in this hobby. Maybe that’s because it’s obvious, but like everything in astrophotography, I think it’s anything but obvious because there are multiple ways to approach this.
In this post I’m going to break down how I power my gear at home and then explain other options that are available to you.