I now completed my collection of Begali Keys! In January 2023, I purchased the Begali Camelback straight key. It became my standard straight key for use at the main operating position. Being a lover of bugs, I ordered the Intrepid…
It is that time of year again, Christmas Lights, Holiday Music, early dark evenings, frigid temperatures, and of course, the 160M Contest. My plan this year was to make a larger effort, but due to other activities, was only able…
While recovering from Thanksgiving left-overs, I noticed a clear sky outside. I should do some imaging. It was quite clear and cold. I wanted to get a Mosaic of M45. I quickly set up the Seestar on the back deck…
I wanted to do a comparison between the Seestar and the The Rig. I picked the Cocoon Nebula because it is in a rich star field, and has some good color to highlight the difference. Details on each picture below:…
Being a CW enthusiast, I am not really an SSB contester but I do like to dabble in it a little. I find SSB contests more exhausting than CW contests. This year, I made a goal to get a clean…
Many on the Amateur Astronomy Digital Voice Net have been enjoying Slow Scan TV (SSTV) from the International Space Station. Occasionally, ARISS has special SSTV transmissions from the Space Station that allow hams all over the world to capture pictures.…
This is the final section of the tutorial where we enlarge and save our file. Resample Resampling your image is an optional step. Enlarging the image will make better prints if you choose to do so. This will destroy the…
If all is going well, you should now be in the Non-Linear phase of image processing done in the previous section. In this section, we will begin Non-Linear processing. HDRMultiscaleTransform HDRMultiscaleTransform is a plugin to compress the dynamic range of…
Now that the image is ready for processing in the previous section, it is time to start processing the image in Linear Space. Color Calibration with SPCC A recent addition to Pixinsight, the SpectrophotometicColorCalibration plugin has been a timesaver for…
We now have a master light frame we created in the previous section, it is now time to prepare the image for processing. Rotate the Image The Seestar imaging chip is aligned vertically so to make a presentable image, I…
In the previous section of this tutorial, we installed all of the required tools and plugins. In this section, we will begin by illustrating how to stack your images in Pixinsight. Setting up Working Directories One of the activities I…
In this section of the tutorial, I will be outlining how to install the additional tools and plugins used. All of the premium plugins (and Pixinsight itself) have trial versions. The assumption is that you have already registered for trial…
