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rdmOne of my last shots from Friday night. This will be a familiar sight to everyone North of the Equator, but it is a rare visitor around my latitude. In fact, the last time I shot this was in December of 2023. In a bit of an amusing twist, this image, like the one in 2023, was shot with my Dwarf2. This time I got much more than 10 minutes though, and have access to much better post-processing options.Andromeda is the closest spiral galaxy to our own, and the source of a lot of what we know about the structure of galaxies like ours. Here we get Andromeda and the companions M32 and M110. So, here we have 120x15s@60 exposures, post processed in Stellar Studio and finished in Snapseed. We also have the original version from 2023, 40x15s@80 post processed in Snapseed only. My, how far we've come!<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfII</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Galaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Galaxy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Andromeda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Andromeda</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/M31" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#M31</a>

rdmLast night was an interesting one for astrophotography. According to the forecasts, we were to expect about 2 hours of clear skies, and right on schedule, a mass of cloud came in from the North-West. Unexpectedly, it then slid off to the South-West, and vanished. We then spent the rest night nervously picking new targets and waiting for the cloud to return. Which it did at about 4AM. So this was one night where having the ability to schedule our shoots was utterly useless to us. That said, we are in Bortle 2/3 skies here, and with a new moon we had a chance to go for some things that lose a lot of detail in the suburbs, even with a smart telescope. One of those for me was the Tarantula Nebula, aka 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud.This is a truly massive star forming region - don't forget that the LMC is a companion galaxy to ours - so it is really far away compared to other similar objects we can discern. As it is, it is 2/3 degree by 1/2 degree in size for us, making it a massive 200-570 parsecs across at the estimated distance of 49 Kpc . It is also insanely bright - if it was the same distance as the Orion Nebula, it would be as bright as a full moon!Anyways, I got 83 minutes with the Ha/OIII filter on the Dwarf3, post processed in Stellar Studio and Snapseed.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LMC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LMC</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TarantulaNebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TarantulaNebula</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Snapseed</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NGC2052" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NGC2052</a>

leece<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> Another result from last night before the clouds came in. I had fun with the editing as you may imagine!I did three versions of this, turned out the middle one was in the Goldilocks zone for me. About a half hour exposure.

leece<a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rdm</a> and I are in some pretty dark sky this weekend. Unfortunately the rest of the weekend is cloudy but last night we got to revel in some lovely nebula and here's one of my favorites from last night's session. It's the Blue Horsehead Nebula, taken with the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf2</a> which did really well! <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> The Dwarf3 was busy stuffing up a mosaic. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nebula</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</a>

leeceStill riding the coattails of National Science week in Australia.Took this during the first half of the evening. Then the cloud came in and that put laid to my SMC plans. But for early experiments in mosaics it has worked well I think.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackyardAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackyardAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DrivewayAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DrivewayAstrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a>

leeceWe're getting toward the end of National Science Week in Australia, so I polished this up for you with the help of <a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rdm</a> 's handy spiff-up-your-photo guide.It was a result of multiple sessions and stacking in my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfLab</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> This is The String of Pearls Galaxy or NGC 55.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Galaxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Galaxy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackyardAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackyardAstrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DrivewayAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DrivewayAstronomy</a>

leeceWe're getting toward the end of National Science Week in Australia, so I polished this up for you.It was a result of multiple sessions and stacking in my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfLab</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> It's a nice subject and one I think I'll revist.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nebula</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackyardAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackyardAstrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DrivewayAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DrivewayAstronomy</a>

rdmI've written a bit more of a long-form post about my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> post-processing procedures. <a href="https://rdmasters.lympago.com/2025/08/adventures-in-astrophotography-post.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rdmasters.lympago.com/2025/08/adventures-in-astrophotography-post.html</a><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfII</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfLab</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Snapseed</a>

rdmNext, on the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> I targeted the same thing - <a href="https://aus.social/tags/C63" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C63</a> again, but this time with an <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OIII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OIII</a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SII</a> dualband filter. The result is quite a surprise. I was not expecting the level of intensity in the outer layers. The H-a really wipes it out normally. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackYardAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackYardAstronomy</a>

rdmLast night was the last night of clear weather for a week or so for us, so, despite the full moon, we popped the Dwarves up on the roof.First up let's look at what I got the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfII</a> to do. I thought I'd revisit my old favourite, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/C63" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C63</a> the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HelixNebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HelixNebula</a> . What I got surprised me greatly. Here is the same scene - about a fortnight apart - one shot on the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> and the other on the DwarfII. In both cases there is about 7 hours of exposure, at gain 80, and both are using a dualband <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OIII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OIII</a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HII</a> filter. Both were post processed in the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StellarStudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StellarStudio</a> and finished in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Snapseed</a> . I am utterly amazed at just how good the Dwarf2 stands up. No, it is not as good as the Dwarf3, but it is still a solid image, and one I am very pleased with.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackYardAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackYardAstronomy</a>

leece<a href="https://eigenmagic.net/@buddhawilliams" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@buddhawilliams</a> well, I've had an exciting time with my clusterfudge. Firstly my final one just kept closing when I went to check on it, so, unlike the Titanic, was unsynchable. So I quickly entered up another, well as quick as I could, on another tablet in case my first one wasn't stable because of the Beta Dwarf App. Phew, got that done.Then my DwarfIII tried and tried to calibrate, but it looked like something was wrong with the focus, so <a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rdm</a> found the option to reset the 0 point for the second target to my immense surprise. I had no idea it was THAT resilient!Hope yours is going well too!My Dwarf 2 has settled on the VDB 102 reflection nebula for much of the night and the Great Winter Solstice-ish ClusterFudge is underway!<a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LeecesClusterFudge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeecesClusterFudge</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfII</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfIII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfIII</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarflab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dwarflab</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DrivewayAstrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DrivewayAstrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LCFCatalogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LCFCatalogue</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackYardAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackYardAstronomy</a>

leeceHuge kudos and thank you to <a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rdm</a> who showed extreme grace under pressure in helping me get this video out before tomorrow!We did well getting this together in just a few hours so be kind!<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LeecesClusterFudge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeecesClusterFudge</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GlobularStarCluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobularStarCluster</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OpenStarCluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenStarCluster</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SouthernHemisphereAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SouthernHemisphereAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LCFCatalogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LCFCatalogue</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/RoWVYCLXsX4?si=oDJyIpbFAr_Nlp5Z" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/RoWVYCLXsX4?si=oDJyIpbFAr_Nlp5Z</a>This refers back to my original talk about Clusterfudging -<a href="https://aus.social/@leece/114664990023826144" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://aus.social/@leece/114664990023826144</a>

rdmA couple of days ago I posted about the new <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> astro mosaic mode.That night I tried it out again, this time on the Carinae Nebulae region. This time I got 160 minutes of data across the four quadrants, made up of 30s subframes.I then identified a bunch of dud frames, stripped them out, and reprocessed them using the inbuilt Stellar Studio service. One pass of this was to de-star the image, and the other to generate a clean mosaic, which I then upped the contrast and darkened the shadows on.Finally I combined those two images to create a reduced star version. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/BackYardAstronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackYardAstronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Snapseed</a>

leeceI just have to shout out to Dwarf for their customer service. My 3 got confused and after I'd been using it for 6 months, decided it wanted to be activated again, but wouldn't succesfully activate. When I reported this I was contacted quickly, and Sue let me know that the problem needed a zoom meeting and I booked a time. Clare and an engineer whose name I didn't get then got us very patiently through the tricky process of navigating through what needed to be done - it's not simple when you're a Linux house like us! But with Linux wizard <a href="https://aus.social/@rdm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@rdm</a> to assist they got us through and fixed the problem pretty quick considering two languages were employed! Lovely people and really helpful, and not afraid of challenges! Which we were. 😄 Thank you!<a href="https://aus.social/tags/dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfLab</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a>

rdmI am officially impressed.As you all know, I own a bunch of Dwarflab telescopes along with <a href="https://aus.social/@leece" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@leece</a> .Two years ago, Dwarflab made the DwarfII available to the general public after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Last year, they released an updated version, the Dwarf3. Since then they have been releasing updates to the Dwarf3's firmware roughly once a month. Cool.What has impressed me more is that roughly every two or three months, they have been releasing many of the same updates for the DwarfII.Today I noticed that DwarfII had an update pending - this time they added the post-processing and multi-session stacking features, giving it almost the same feature set as the newer telescope. This level support for a discontinued product is amazing in this day and age, so kudos to Dwarflab!<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfII</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarflab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarflab</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a>

rdmA couple of nights ago I let my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dwarf3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dwarf3</a> stay out all night with a stellation mask, which bagged me about 8 hours worth of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Antares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Antares</a> , <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Messier4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Messier4</a> , and other goodies, including the Antares <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ReflectionNebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ReflectionNebula</a>. I ran it through the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DwarfLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DwarfLab</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/StellarStudio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StellarStudio</a> tools, and then did a bit more cleanup in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Snapseed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Snapseed</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GooglePhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GooglePhotos</a> - about 15 minutes work.I'm pretty darned pleased with the results. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astrophotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astrophotography</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Nebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nebula</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Star" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Star</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GlobularStarCluster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlobularStarCluster</a>

rdmI have a question for the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrophotographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrophotographer</a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mathematician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mathematician</a> folks out there.What is the smallest number of frames you could perform a drizzle transform on? Could you, for example, perform it on two frames, and then submit that image to a livestacking process?Does this idea even make sense?As for "Why do this?", I am looking at the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a> world, and wondering if you could perform the resolution increase in conjunction with live stacking, without resorting to post-processing. This is to attempt to allow a software-only capability upgrade, while still maintaining the convenience.I figured I'd ask here first, because (conceptually) it seems almost too simple. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Astrodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Astrodon</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DumbQuestion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DumbQuestion</a>

IT NewsThe Unistellar Odyssey smart telescope made me question what stargazing means - Enlarge / The Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro and the Unistellar Odyssey Pro. (credit: Ti... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2026083" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/?p=2026083</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/unistellarodyssey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unistellarodyssey</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/smarttelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smarttelescope</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/unistellar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unistellar</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/telescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#telescope</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/reviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reviews</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a>

Tim ☑️ 🔭🌃📷🚴🌳Well at least the alleged "telescope" looks good in the back garden, even if the results won't be all that spectacular. Dwarf.II in action.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scotland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/behindthescenes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#behindthescenes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/telescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#telescope</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SmartTelescope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmartTelescope</a>

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