Seestar S30: a review halfway between enthusiasm and disappointment Introduction The Seestar S30 is the entry-level model in ZWO’s range of “all-in-one” smart telescopes: optics, mount, camera and software in a single body, designed for anyone who wants to do astrophotography without necessarily …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. The REEGO Pro 2 is a high-level universal collimation tool, designed for those who want to go beyond laser and Cheshire and achieve a truly accurate alignment of the entire optical system. It is particularly suited to Newtonians, but it also …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. During my talk at Luca Fornaciari’s Astro Pub in January 2025 I had stated that I had never tried Newtonian telescopes for astrophotography.A few days later, Giuliano Monti of Tecnosky contacted me to suggest I test their Newton 200/800 …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. A few months ago (April 2024) I was contacted by Alessandro Roso and TS Italia Astronomy to try out a new flatbox. The matter seemed interesting to me right away, since the acquisition of flat fields for an accurate calibration of images has …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. Image calibration is a crucial step during the pre-processing of astronomical images; this short article takes a closer look at the calibration of cameras that suffer from the phenomenon known as bias drift, thanks to calibration using the …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. Calibrating astronomical images is one of the key steps to achieving a quality result, and one of the most important steps in this phase is the application of the flat field. During my PixInsight courses all over Italy, one question, unrelated …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. As a city astrophotographer, in a city of the Po Valley — a region that suffers from one of the worst levels of light pollution in Europe — my first goal has always been to find clear, dark skies from which to shoot my images.

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. Anno Domini 2020, December: media all over the world take an interest in a rare astronomical event — the conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn. Conjunctions between these two planets recur at intervals of about 20 years, but this one had a …

leggi l’articolo in italiano Many of the astrophotographers of my generation, after passing through analog photography, approached digital astrophotography for the first time thanks to CMOS sensors. Only a few, in fact, could afford the first cooled CCD sensors for astronomy: they were expensive, small and …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. One of the most debated and least understood issues among non-specialists is the so-called linearity of electronic image sensors. CCD and CMOS imaging sensors should possess one fundamental characteristic if they are to be used for scientific …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. Light pollution: the Nemesis of every urban and suburban amateur astronomer. Whether you are a visual observer or a photographer, one of the greatest obstacles to your passion is undoubtedly the rampant phenomenon of light pollution.

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. Here is the video of the Conference held together with my friend Lorenzo Comolli (http://www.astrosurf.com/comolli/) about the possibility of seeing the colors of astronomical objects during visual observation at the telescope. The title, …

On Monday June 22nd 2015 The Astroimaging Channel proposed an image processing challenge (read here) based on a set of RGB images of the Markarian chain. This was the challenge: 1. Gradient Removal while preserving star color. A few months back, I wanted to try imaging my blue channel high up in the sky. It …

Page translated by Claude — switch to Italian to read the original article. Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer: don’t call me a star tracker I have been doing astrophotography for many years now, first with film, then with a DSLR, finally arriving at the monochrome CCD. Like many astrophotographers I began my career, …

Leggi la versione in italiano Recent observations of comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy showed the presence of characteristic structures in the vicinity of the jet fake comet’s nucleus.Such structures can be explained by the presence of collimated jets of gas and dust emitted from the surface of the comet nucleus. This …