About

Welcome to my website. I have created this website because of my love of astronomy and astrophotography and I want to share many of the images that I have taken through my telescopes. I created this site because I love the hobby of star-gazing and astrophotography and I like to share it with others. The source code for this website is free to use and is open-source under the Apache 2.0 License. The link to the GitHub repo is in the footers. Feel free to clone the code for this website and use it as part of your own projects. A log of the patch notes can be found at this link, Patch Notes.

Licensing

All images posted here are covered under the creative commons attribution 4.0 international license. This means that you can share the images that are on this site and you can remix or build upon the images here even to use in commercial products as long as you give credit to me as the source of the images.

Telescopes

Whenever you view the details of an image, you will see listed in the details the telescope that was used to take the image. Here are all the telescopes that I have in my collection.

Celestron NextStar 8

Website

* Because of the age of the telescope, I can only find the website for the more modern version offered by Celestron. Also, the original mount was starting to fail, so I had it removed and the tube modified so that it could fit on a different mount.

Aurora Explore One

Website

Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dobsonian

Website

Software Typically Used

• Siril - Used to process DeepSky images.
• Autoskakkert! - Used to process planetary images.
• PIPP - Planetary Imaging PreProcessor - Used in processing planetary images.
• GIMP - Used in cleaning up images after processing.