Foundational concepts in astrophotography that apply to the DWARF 3 and to the discipline broadly. Covers the Bortle scale, signal-to-noise ratio, integration time, CMOS sensor theory, deep sky catalogs, field rotation, plate solving, and calibration frame types. Intended for readers at any experience level.
A telescope named Draco showed up inside the DWARFLAB app with no announcement. On its own, that would be a curiosity. Lined up against a patent, a wide-angle spec, and a trade…
I had 21.5 hours of data on the Squid Nebula and a decision to make: keep shooting it, or give up and point the scope somewhere else. Ou4 is one of the…
The giant squid (the deep sea creature, not the squid nebula) spent most of a century as the animal everyone knew was down there and almost nobody could photograph. There were beaks…
At 4:22 in the morning my phone showed me something I couldn’t explain in my M13 Hercules Cluster image. 561 frames of M13, the Hercules cluster, nearly at zenith, 9.74 GB of…
What You Will Learn In this post I cover why DWARF 3 deep-sky images can look soft when zoomed in, what the telescope’s optics and image scale actually mean for resolution, how…
Most people assume that serious lunar or moon photography requires a dedicated astronomy camera, a laptop running capture software, and a workflow that takes more time to set up than the session…
DwarfLab recently added a dedicated Star Trail Mode to the Dwarf 3 app. This is my first test of it. 720 frames at 30 seconds each, six hours total, stacked in real…
