While waiting for IC434 to come up I spent a few minutes taking a LRGB of M45, the Pleades. This one is a total of 8 minutes and came out OK. Basic calibration was performed but no flats have been applied. L: 2 minutes R: 2 minutes G: 2 minutes B: 2...

My favorite season for astrophotography is back. As those of you who have followed my astroimaging pursuits know I have been chasing the elusive Horsehead Nebulae for almost 10 yers now. I have finally have my dream system of the Takahashi FSQ-106ED,...

I finally got around to rebuilding my servers and deploying the “Small Moves” blog. I had been hosting it over at Wordpress.com for a bit so it was a simple matter of just importing the XML to get things back in plce. I still need to relink the...

I called Brian over at TNR this morning to confirm one of the items on the order and checking on shipping and got the bad news that the new FSQ-106ED still hasn’t shipped. They have the order from Oceanside Photo & Telescope but TNR...

So I went ahead and bit the bullet and ordered the new Reducer and the Extender Q for the new scope. I’m not sure how much I’ll use the reducer but I’m pretty excipted about the Extender Q for visual use. I had planned to wait but then I saw Art’s post...