NASA, as of late, reported that it's found 5,000 exoplanets, an achievement that is required 30 years to accomplish.

One a post a couple weeks back I had someone ask about weighting the Ha channel with a multiplier since I mentioned that I did that in processing the image I posted, so here is a quick post showing how to do it in APP and

Deconvolution is one of PixInsight’s most powerful programs, but it is also one that takes some time to understand how to effectively use it, especially for beginners to astro image processing.

Sometimes we get an image that has some stars that have somehow gotten so big that it normal star shrinking actions will not do much for them.

Masking is a mystery to some people when processing their astrophotos. It doesn’t have to be. I must admit, I am not a big fan of the masking tools in PixInsight.

Telescope Live has quite a bit of data from SPA-1, SPA-3,. and AUS-2. They are all Takahashi FSQ 106 setups that have been reduced to 380mm focal length, I imagine using the matched Takahashi .73 reducer for that scope.