Confessions of a Frustrated Amateur Astronomer

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 [...]

After the colossal failure of the webcam experiment, I looked for a easier astrophotography alternative.  All the pictures I took so far uses the afocal method.  Afocal is nothing more than holding a camera up to the eye piece where your eye should be and taking a picture.  Its the crudest form of astrophotography but [...]