@pwalker Thanks, Paul. It seemed that without any filter, even with the camera gains (either one) set very low and the exposures set to a few millise...

I used a different camera today to capture some sun images: a ZWO ASI178MM (uncooled, monochrome) camera. (6.4 Mpx, 60 fps max) I also tried SharpCa...

@pwalker Beautiful image, Paul. I tried ImPPG for the first time today instead of Registax. ImPPG uses deconvolution rather than wavelets and I seem...

I was able to capture some images (videos) of the sun today. Unfortunately, I couldn't capture the entire sun even with a reducer in place since th...

@mark-moyer Found it in the Simbad catalog, Mark. Thank you again! Greg

@mark-moyer Terrific!! Thanks so much, Mark. I'm going to take a look at the catalog. Appreciate the input. Greg

I was looking at my image of M45 and noticed something that I can't find in any of the Atlases I have. I looked online and noticed it's also in some ...

Sorry, couldn't get to this post to edit it in time, but I changed the distortion a bit so Mars and some of the other stars look round.  C2022E...

I was able to capture a few brief images of C/2022 E3 (ZTF) with Mars last night. The images were VERY brief duration of 30 sec. I was actually test...

It's hard for me to resist capturing the beautiful Pleiades asterism each year. Also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45 (M45) among other name...

@pwalker This was just a single image, Paul. I have so many different configurations I didn't stack them all (plus I only did about 5 images of each ...

I took some images of the sun today using a Baader ASTF Solar Filter for the first time. Lots of sunspots! I haven't gone through all the images yet,...

@peter-gillette Thanks, Peter! After I got home from our grandkids it was completely overcast and I figured the night was a bust. Then I made the 'mi...

@terri Well, I think you can definitely see the ion tail a bit better. Greg