Month: <span>August 2019</span>

The Iris & Ghost Nebulas from Oregon Star Party

Another image captured at Oregon Star Party this year, framing both the Iris and Ghost nebulas in Cepheus. This is a challenging target, covering large areas of low-contrast reflection nebulosity, and which benefits from the extremely dark and transparent skies available at OSP. This is a redo of an attempt to capture the same framing…


Walk-Through of an Image Processing Workflow

This post shows at a high level the stages in processing the data captured during an imaging session all the way through to the final image, in this case the image of the Iris and Ghost nebulas that I captured at Oregon Star Party this year. The picture above is a screen capture taken on…


NGC7822 From Oregon Star Party

Click for Full Size Image Back from Oregon Star Party, with some more image data to process. This year saw a big improvement in conditions, thanks to an earlier date intended to avoid smoke from wildfires that proved to be such a problem last year. This strategy was successful, and we had only a touch…