How to improve my Lagoon Nebula?Ralph Paonessa
Deep-sky objects that northern hemisphere observers are used to seeing low on the horizon (such as the Lagoon Nebula) are now high overhead in the sky. It is best to enjoy the Southern Hemisphere Milky Way during the nights surrounding the New Moon phase (Ideally within 5 days before ...
I have done precisely that and it's part of the motivation to my question. The S50 looks to be supremely convenient for doing what I consider "casual AP" but I'd like to get as much as I can from it as well. The post-processing software chains folks are using and the mount of po...
TheLagoon Nebulais a stunning emission nebula in the constellationSagittarius. The Lagoon Nebula is big (90 × 40 arcmin’s), bright (apparent magnitude +6.0), and it sits right next door to the beautifulTrifid Nebula. If you’re new to astrophotography, you may want to stick to the brig...
Can shear strength of will — "I must lift this heavy object to save my child," for instance — really give you the muscle to lift cars in an emergency? Just how powerful is willpower? Alas, scientists can't put a discrete number to it, beyond noting that, in some cases, it's ...
Winter provides good views of planetary nebula, but the cold always gets me. Autumn has some nice PNe but Spring stinks as there are only a handful of them around. I use my 294MC camera mostly, as I like to get nice colorful images of the little buggers, but like alphatripleplus, I...