astrophotography

Dark Doodad

Posted by cafuego on Thursday 22 November 2018. In categories &doodad  &dark nebula  &astrophotography
The Dark Doodad
It's been a while since I did a blog, so after twiddling the way the front page of the site displays, it's time to post a new one. The attached photo is of my favourite dark nebula, "The Dark Doodad". What looks like a long thin nebula is apparently a sheet over 40 light years wide that we happen to be seeing edge-on. On the left you can see a few dark tendrils that are par of the coal sack nebula.

Astrophotography with Mac OS X

Posted by cafuego on Sunday 5 February 2017. In categories &astronomy  &astrophotography  &MacOSX  &software  &hardware
M42 - Orion Nebula

It's been a good three years now since I swapped my HP laptop for a Macbook Pro. In the mean time, I've started doing a bit more astrophotography and of course the change of operating system has affected the tools I use to obtain and process photos.

Amateur astronomers have traditionally mostly used Windows, so there are a lot of Windows tools, both freeware and payware, to help. I used to run the freeware ones in Wine on Ubuntu with varying levels of success.