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    • The Jellyfish Nebula
    • The California Nebula
    • The Triangulum Galaxy
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    • B161 & LDN 1121
    • The Coma Cluster
    • The Ghost of Cassiopeia
    • The Flaming Star Nebula
    • The Rotten Fish Nebula
    • The Cygnus Wall
    • The Butterfly Nebula
    • Hercules Globular Cluster (M13)
    • The Pinwheel Galaxy
    • The Bode and Cigar galaxies (M81 & M82)
    • NGC 7822
    • The Orion Nebula
    • Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
    • The Soul Nebula
    • The Heart Nebula
    • The Andromeda Galaxy
    • The Elephant’s Trunk Nebula
    • The Flying Bat and Squid Nebulae
    • The Crescent Nebula
    • The Lobster Claw Nebula
    • The Shark Nebula
    • The Whirlpool Galaxy
    • The Double Cluster
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    • The Cave Nebula
    • The Lion Nebula
    • The Pelican Nebula
    • The Cygnus Loop
    • The Rosette Nebula
    • Star Trails
    • Markarian’s Chain
    • Asteroid Vesta
    • M3
    • Nova Cas 2021
    • The Pacman Nebula
    • The Moon
  • Reviews
    • Review: Optolong L-Quad Enhance
    • Review: ZWO Seestar S50
    • Review: BlurXTerminator
    • Review: Askar Colour Magic D1 and D2 Duo Band filters (Ha/OIII & SII/OIII)
    • Review: The Astrophotography Planner Custom Digital Edition
    • Review: Askar 130PHQ
    • Review: William Optics 50mm Guidescope with 1.25″ ROTO Lock
    • Dualband Filter Shootout: L-eXtreme vs L-Ultimate vs Colour Magic 6nm
    • Review: Eagle Image stacker
    • Review: PixInsight
    • Review: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
    • Review: William Optics 32mm Slide-base Uniguide Scope
    • Review: Askar FRA400 f/5.6 Quintuplet APO Astrograph
    • Review: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
    • Review: Cygnus Astro Cover
    • Review: ASIAIR Plus
    • Light pollution filter shootout (IDAS-LPS D1 vs P3 vs D3)
  • Articles
    • Guide: “Which filter should I use with my OSC camera?”
    • ZWO RMA: Sending a broken camera from the UK to China for repairs
    • Guide: using a Seestar S50 for public outreach star parties
    • ASIAIR guide: how to frame custom targets
    • Reprocessing Bonanza, 2022 edition
    • ASIAIR guide: How to use mains power
    • 10 Controversial Opinions
    • DIY Flats Panel
    • “How do you take those photos?”
    • Top 10 upgrades
    • How to get long integration times
    • OSC vs Mono from a city
  • PixInsight
    • PixInsight walkthroughs
    • PixInsight Guide: IntegerResample (knowing when to bin your data)
    • PixInsight guide: Pre-processing
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Category: Articles

Cat Links Articles, Guide, PixInsight

PixInsight Guide: IntegerResample (knowing when to bin your data)

Posted on April 16, 2024March 17, 2025 Lee

Intro Binning is a topic that confuses a lot of people — myself included! In this guide I hope to

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Cat Links Articles, Guide

Guide: “Which filter should I use with my OSC camera?”

Posted on March 19, 2024March 16, 2025 Lee

Intro I’m often contacted with lots questions, and am always happy to help beginners. Perhaps the most common theme that

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Cat Links Articles, ZWO ASI 2600MC-PRO

ZWO RMA: Sending a broken camera from the UK to China for repairs

Posted on January 19, 2024March 16, 2025 Lee

Intro We hope our astro kit never breaks, but what happens if you do need to send it off for

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Cat Links Articles, Guide, Seestar S50

Guide: using a Seestar S50 for public outreach star parties

Posted on December 7, 2023March 16, 2025 Lee

Intro This guide will give tips on how to best use a Seestar S50 telescope to show public audiences the

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Cat Links Articles, Reviews, Seestar S50

Review: ZWO Seestar S50

Posted on December 5, 2023March 22, 2025 Lee

ZWO’s Seestar S50 smart telescope is an all-in-one portable astrophotography set-up with beginners in mind, designed to make imaging as

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Cat Links Articles, Guide, PixInsight

PixInsight walkthrough: Processing OSC RGB data (M13)

Posted on November 28, 2023January 22, 2024 Lee

I’m getting a lot of requests through for processing walkthroughs, so here’s a simple one to begin with: regular RGB

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Cat Links Articles, ASIAIR

ASIAIR guide: how to frame custom targets

Posted on August 25, 2023March 16, 2025 Lee

Intro An ASIAIR controller makes it fairly easy to frame the astronomical target you want to image. It contains a

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PixInsight guide: Pre-processing

Posted on March 9, 2023March 11, 2023 Lee

Pre-processing is a vital step on the journey to producing an astrophoto worthy of printing and hanging on your wall.

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Reprocessing Bonanza, 2022 edition

Posted on December 28, 2022March 16, 2025 Lee

Intro I decided to reprocess many of my old images to round off the year that was 2022. New processing

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Cat Links Articles, ASIAIR

ASIAIR guide: How to use mains power

Posted on August 3, 2022March 16, 2025 Lee

Intro If you use an ASIAIR PRO or Plus to control and remotely automate your imaging rig, you need a

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