Flat Field Lightbox for Seestar
ZWO recently added the ability to make Flat Fields for the Seestar. ZWO provides a few ways on how to take your flat fields, but I wanted to design and make a flatfield lightbox to make it convenient and consistent.…
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JGAP – 2025/08/02 and NGC7000
What a night! It was a nice clear, unseasonably cool evening at my favorite place to image. The crowd was excellent and very interested in the program. Many came up and asked questions about what we were doing. I was…
Night at JGAP – 2025/04/27
In a rare confluence of clear skies and new moon in Ohio, I decided to make the trek down to the John Glenn Astronomy Park to capture some photons. Spring is Galaxy Season with no bag limit! Let’s see how…
Lunar Eclipse March 2025
On the night of March 13th and the morning of March 14th, stargazers in the Western Hemisphere got to witness a total lunar eclipse. I used this as an opportunity to do some imaging with the updated rig and the…
Christmas Rosette with S30
Santa came early this year! My Seestar S30 arrived on December 22nd, 2024 and it just so happened that it was clear that evening. I had to try out my new toy! Some initial observations on the S30: I am…
More Seestar Mosaic Mode – M45
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…
Seestar vs. The Rig
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:…
Seestar Pixinsight Processing Tutorial – Finalizing your Image
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…
Seestar Pixinsight Processing Tutorial – Non-Linear Processing
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…
Seestar Pixinsight Processing Tutorial – Linear Processing
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…
Seestar Pixinsight Processing Tutorial – Preparing the Image for Processing
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…
Seestar Pixinsight Processing Tutorial – Stacking with Weighted Batch Pre-Processing (WBPP)
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…