Notices by Tim ☑️ 🔭🌃📷🚴🌳 (xylophilist@mastodon.online)

@stfn @thomasfuchs Yummy. I have a 300mm f/4 Takumar somewhere. Definitely worth a punt :)

@stfn @thomasfuchs Oh, now there's a thought - I have a Helios 58mm in M42. Classic, known for its soap-bubble bokeh. I wonder how BX handles that :D

@stfn @thomasfuchs I was wondering about using it for astro-landscape work too - a neighbour a couple of streets away mentioned the other day about using PI for processing aurora photos, which had simply never occurred to me 🤯 So why not go the whole hog? :)

@thomasfuchs Blimey. I might have to get the newt back in operation as well - was last seen suffering from coma and pinching galore :)

Just bought RC Astro's BlurXTerminator plugin for PixInsight.

This is a comparatively cheapo SkyWatcher 80ED with lousy "flattener" maladjusted, near the far-left middle edge of the frame, before and after running BlurXTerminator.
I had to check twice I was still comparing the same section of the frame, it's that radical an improvement.

It sure lives up to the hype and then some 😀

#astrophotography #photo #stars #nightsky #geek #win

This is one *massive* aurora display on the go. Too much cloud in the wrong places to be seeing any red but it was right overhead and down into the southern side of the sky... Just wow.

#aurora #auroraborealis #perthshire #scotland #nightsky #photography

@withaveeay It's the $variables outside "" that scare me 😱 🤖 #pernickety