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- May 13, 2022
Earth’s atmosphere is a wonderful thing. It lets us breathe and helps us stay warm, despite our living on a rock that’s moseying along in the frigidness of space. But sometimes, for astronomers especially, it can be a real pain.
- April 22, 2022
Our universe is absolutely massive. For example, did you know that it takes light 2.8 million light-years to travel from the Andromeda Galaxy? That means we’re looking at the Andromeda Galaxy as it was 2.8 million light-years ago! In this article, we’ll...
- April 20, 2022
If you’re a birder, the chances are you’ve seen and/or used both binoculars and spotting scopes before. Maybe you already own a few of each and are wondering which is best for looking at the stars. Alternatively, you may be an amateur astronomer considering...
- April 18, 2022
Almost everyone has seen a shooting star at some point. Technically known as meteors, these streaks of light often appear suddenly and without warning before fading and disappearing just as quickly. What are they? Where do they come from? And which meteor...
- April 15, 2022
It might seem like there’s a lot to learn about astronomy, and you might not know where to begin. To give you a head-start, we’ve created a library of online content that will help to build the foundations you need to get the most out of the hobby.
- April 13, 2022
Several years ago High Point Scientific sent me an R2 kit and asked me to try it out for a few weeks so that I could become acquainted with it, in order to help our customers with any questions that they might have. As excited as I was in putting this...
- April 11, 2022
We’ve all heard of a blue moon. Whether it’s because someone has said “once in a blue moon” or because a “blue moon” was said to be happening that month, the term has become part of our everyday language. But what does it really mean? How did it originate...
- April 06, 2022
You’ve probably heard of a nebula before. Maybe it’s because you’ve seen them in sci-fi movies and TV shows, where they’ll hang in the background to make the blackness of space look more appealing. They’re often stunningly beautiful in photographs and...
- April 05, 2022
We are always looking to improve our astrophotos, and there certainly are a variety of ways to do so! One option is adding Hydrogen-Alpha (Ha) to your RGB data. This is an especially helpful trick for any astrophotographer using a cooled color camera...
- April 04, 2022
PixInsight is an incredibly powerful tool for an astrophotographer, however, it has a huge learning curve to it. You can do things such as remove light pollution, color calibrate your images, reduce noise, and so much more.
- April 04, 2022
After the discovery of Neptune, it was postulated that other planets may exist beyond its orbit. This trans-Neptunian object was dubbed “Planet X”, and beginning in 1894 the astronomer Percival Lowell began an extensive search to find Planet X.
- March 30, 2022
It’s hard to think about the universe without conjuring up images of distant galaxies slowly spinning through the blackness of space. We’ve all seen the images from the Hubble Space Telescope that show nearby galactic neighbors in stunning detail or countless...
- March 28, 2022
The Andromeda Galaxy has been seen in our skies for generations. The first astronomer to formally describe the Andromeda Galaxy was the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi. Al-Sufi wrote that the Andromeda Galaxy was a “little cloud” in the year...
- March 28, 2022
For many, astrophotography is a life-changing hobby. Astrophotography is one of the most intimate ways we as human beings can truly engage with the beautiful universe in which we live.
- March 25, 2022
Imagine yourself outside on a very cold night. You don’t want to have to spend much time outside in the cold, so you decide that you only need to get 10 minutes worth of data on a certain target. But when you’re processing, you’re disappointed to find...
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