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I've often admired those pretty pictures of the Milky Way arcing across a beautiful landscape--for instance, this NASA APOD. We went to the beautiful Muir Trail Ranch a couple weeks ago and were fortunate to be at the ranch (which has a beautiful very dark sky) on nights when the moon didn't rise until after … Continue reading Curved Milky Way

One of the main things I've learnt from my astrophotography hobby is humility. Here's episode #743 of "what can go wrong, does go wrong". I use an astronomy camera that is monochrome, but uses color filters to capture color, one channel at a time. Earlier this year I was talking with my Astro mentor Rogelio, … Continue reading Color Filters