For those of you who live in a major urban neighborhood amongst Bortle 9+ skies like me, you know the issues with setting up and executing an observing session in your backyard.
After less than a year of investigating the lunar surface, the Chinese probe Chang-e 5 already contributed to an extraordinary find: it sampled the youngest lunar rocks ever.
For those of us that have come through decades of astrophotography processing, the latest software is something of a dream. Rendering time was often measured in hours.
I’ve spent the last few months working to get proficient using Sequence Generator Pro (SGP). For the most part, it’s been a fairly straightforward journey.
The BepiColombo mission delivers its first images of the least explored of the terrestrial planets of our Solar System: the small but no-less exciting Mercury.
Using a 3D visualisation tool, researchers have demonstrated that the “Perseus-Taurus Supershell” was caused by a supernova 10 million years ago, and that this event precipitated star-formation in nearby molecular clouds.
Most astrophotographers are familiar with the FITS format of image files. Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is the most commonly used image file in astronomy.
