Hawaii astronomical society held their monthly public star party at Dillingham Airfield near Kaena Point last Saturday. Dillingham is a very dark site, one of the few left on Oahu. The airfield only has 1 runway for light aircrafts.
Usually, about 15-20 club members and about 30 or so general public will show up at the [...]
A friend of mine loaned me his Canon XTi for the weekend so that I could try out a DSLR camera before I make my purchase. I plan to head out to some dark skies on Saturday but I couldn’t wait to test out the camera. So I set it out on my balcony and [...]
I’ve heard about astrophotography with registax a while back and wanted to try it for myself. The idea behind that really stemmed from imaging planets. Instead of taking a long exposure of the target, you take a video of the target then “stack” the individual frames together to form the final image. In theory, each [...]
This is my first real attempt at photographing a deep space object. So I pick one of the brightest, M7, as the target. I’m using my Sony DSC-S50, the digi-T adapter attached to a 25mm eyepiece and the Orion XT6 scope.
I used the Sony’s ultra low light mode to take this picture. According to the [...]