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Nothing but clouds here lately 🙁 Spent a some time messing with my RaspAstroWeb python application running on my All Sky Camera Raspberry Pi. Added the ability to get the 30 day Moon forecast for a given US zip code.
It snowed last night and it is very cold today. The Sun is suppose to come out this afternoon and the sky is suppose to be clear tonight. Hopefully I can get the SeeStar out for a bit. As storms like this…
Friday night it snowed. Not too bad, a couple inches and a lot of it melted in the Sun on Saturday afternoon. Saturday night was cold and clear, the nearly full Moon was super bright. I set up and leveled the SeeStar…
Very cold, very clear, and a very bright 80% waxing Moon high in the sky. Didn’t want to fight the Moon with any long exposure light gathering so I decided to do a bit of EAA observing with the SeeStar S50 to…
I stumbled upon this open source project, seestar_alp, which allows remote control of a SeeStar S50 using a web interface called the Simple SeeStar Controller (SSC) running on a Raspberry Pi (there are options for Windows and Mac as well). The Simple…
Lightbucket is a Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy (N.I.N.A. or NINA) plugin which logs information about NINA imaging session. When enabled and configured details about NINA imaging sessions are automatically sent to Lightbucket each time a sequence image is saved. The Lightbucket website…
I have been going through some of my old data practicing with different tools and processing in PixInsight. I had a stack of 18 x 300 seconds of the Leo Triplet which I captured in early April 2024. There were a lot…
Recently I requested and downloaded the free trial from PixInsight. Wanted to give it a try to see what I could do with it and see if it might be worth the price. In this post I’ll jump around PixInsight a bit…
A buddy and fellow amateur astrophotographer suggested this method of parking the telescope with the OTA facing down to help keep dust, dew, and frost off the primary objective of the telescope. This can be accomplished by setting a custom park position…
The last few weeks there has been a lot of buzz in different forums about the impending release of the new SeeStar, the ZWO SeeStar S30. Last night the official details on the SeeStar S50’s little brother were finally released and the…