Dwarf 3 information and images added to Technical and Gallery pages.

Added a new discussion of the Celestron Origin smart telescope, as well as a gallery of Origin images.

Just published: Smart Telescope Astrophotography by Al Peter Available on Amazon. Link: Smart Telescope Astrophotography: Capturing Deep-Sky Images from Your Backyard Using AI-Assisted Telescopes: Peter, Albert F: 9798254017165: Amazon.com: Books

Added a couple of images to the NGC page from last night. Reasonably clear but intermittent thin clouds altered the transparency. NGC 4631 with Seestar S50 and NGC 5033 with CarbonStar RC150. Exposure was about 2 hours for each. Because of varying conditions, had to discard about 50% of actual raw images. Processed in Astro … More New Images

This website has been recently updated (4-25) to add new recent images (April 2025). Current additions include an equipment page and discussion of my image processing and software.

2012-09-12. Images from dark sky site near Peebles Ohio.  The images were taken with a 130mm f/8 refractor on a Mach1 mount.  Q453 CCD imager, using various numbers of 5 minutes subs calibrated with darks.  The night was exceptioally dark and clear with great seeing.

Great time-lapse astro movie.