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I finally had the chance to acquire data to finish up some astrophotography projects. Specifically I needed Sulfur II data for an image of the California nebula. For this project I wanted to try a color mapping I have not tried before. I wanted to use Hydrogen Alpha in the red channel, mix Ha and Continue reading California and a dumbbell 🔭
Deep sky astroimaging season is over, and I finally have some time to process all the data I have captured. The first image I have processed is an image of a the star T Lyrae, which is a very red carbon star. Carbon stars look varying degrees of red due to carbon dust scattering light Continue reading T Lyrae Hidden ruby of the harp
It is astroimaging season, and we have had several clear nights here. I finally worked out how to collimate my 8 inch newtonian well enough to use my Starizona Nexus coma corrector/reducer. My Skywatcher 8 Quattro together with the Nexus becomes an F3 system, which is a quite powerful little telescope. It requires very precise Continue reading Rosette Nebula A gate to the immaterium? 🔭
No drop bears or reMarkables were harmed making this post, but yours might be if you do nonsense like this. At least take a picture of the reMarkable ssh details before you start and proceed at your own risk. I really like my reMarkable 2, but the default setup has some shortcomings. The cloud connect Continue reading Using NetBird with my reMarkable 2
Facebook is the only social network I use for anything serious. I wish it was more like the forums from 20-15 years ago, but I digress. Lately my Facebook got filled with more and more Suggested for you nonsense. Previously I used the hide feature on those, and that partly worked for a while, but Continue reading On the streets of Facebook
I love my reMarkable 2, it has worked great for all my needs with one exception. It was hard to use for mathematics, since it was hard to expand pages and have the context be preserved. I have been asking for this feature in all my feedback to reMarkable, and now it is finally available! Continue reading Remarkably awesome!
My new equipment After deciding to buy a proper equatorial mount (an SW EQ6-R Pro) with an astrograf , imaging has become much easier. I have also finally learned how to do collimation of mirrors well enough for it not to be a complete nightmare. It is still pretty nightmarish in the cold and dark, Continue reading Improved astrophotography capabilities
Something that feels like a once in a lifetime event happened here in Bergen this spring. We had four consecutive days of clear skies, with very little wind and no moon! Earlier on the blog I have expressed the desire to try and image Messier 13 on consecutive nights, to see if I could see Continue reading Blinking cepheid variable stars in Messier 13
I have been hacking on some libcamera experiment, and this time I had the misfortune to have to try and use a Jetbrains product in a local VM and on the host system at the same time. Since it is practical I was using UTM shared networking, but that had the unfortunate side effect that Continue reading Using Jetbrains products in a VM and on the host at the same time
I love observing globular clusters visually. There is something very satisfying about turning the focuser to try to resolve the maximum amount of stars. On the 12th of march I did an observing session in moonlight and quite a bit of wind, and I finally learned why astrophotographers dread wind. The telescope kept shaking, and Continue reading I ❤ globular clusters