07:38
Observatory Update: Powering Up the Observatory!
06:27
Observatory Update: Roughing the Electrical and Pouring the Slab!
08:52
Observatory Update: Roofing, Skins, and Test Opening the Roof!
00:33
Observatory Update: Testing the Rolling Roof for the First Time!
13:25
Observatory Project Update: Walls, Outriggers and Roof Framing!
00:17
Demonstrating My Advanced Drone Piloting Skills While Documenting My Observatory Build!
05:57
Observatory Update: Laying the Foundation!
03:22
Observatory Update: Custom Telescope Piers III - Painted and Complete!
10:56
Observatory Update: Breaking Ground! Excavation Complete!
23:20
Observatory Project: A Last Update Before Breaking Ground!
16:18
Observatory Project: Opening The Roof!
09:11
Observatory Update: Final Roof Track System Hardware Selections!
15:43
Custom Telescope Piers - Part II - Cutting Parts with a 4000-Watt CO2 Laser!
00:37
Cutting my Telescope Pier Parts Parts from 1/2-inch Plate Steel with a 4000-watt CO2 laser!
19:24
Observatory Update: Designing a Custom Steel Pier - Part I
10:42
Observatory Project: Galvanic Corrosion and a Change in Track Selection!
27:29
Observatory Update: Hardware Selections for the Roof Tracking System
18:22
Observatory Update: Land and a Plan - Now How Do We Get Started?
14:36
My Observatory Quest: Sucess! The Search for Larger Skies!
14:04
Designing my Roll-Off-Roof Observatory!
12:03
A New House: Setting Up My Dream Astrophotography Man Cave!
01:25:09
March 2024 Talk to the Hertford Astronomy Group Astrophotography Section in Hertfordshire, UK
01:09:42
Astrophotography From My Driveway: My 12-11-23 Talk at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY
01:13
A Quick Blink Analysis for My WR134 Imaging Project!
01:36
A Blink Analysis for My NGC 6914 Imaging Project
01:26
A Blink Analysis for My SH2-112 Imaging Project
07:23
Tough Year for Astro Captures? Then Discover Better Images Hidden In Old Data!
00:57
Blink Analysis for the DWB 111/119- The Propeller Nebula - A Reprocessing Project!
06:52
2-Minute Tutorials: Using Color Masks to Enhance Image Details!
08:39
2-Minute Tutorials: Using LinearFit to Prepare NB Images for ChannelCombination
06:37
2-Minute Tutorials: Dealing with Horizontal Banding in Your Images!
01:43
Blink Analysis for the SH2- 101 - The Tulip Nebula - Reprocessing Project!
09:42
2-Minute Tutorial: Using Masks on Your Mask? Another lesson in masking!
14:47
Join Me as I Setup 3 Telescope Platforms in My Driveway for a Night of Imaging!
01:15
A Blink Analysis for my Messier 102 - The Spindle Galaxy - Imaging Project
01:05
A Blink Analysis for my Messier 104 - The Sombrero Galaxy Imaging Project
12:22
Messier 27: How Reprocessing of Old Data Led to NASA APOD!
01:12
A Blink Analysis for my Messier 97 - The Owl Nebula - & Messier 108 - The Surfboard Galaxy Project
14:24
A Video Tour of My Upgraded William Optic 132 FLT APO Platform
27:43
Upgrading My William Optics 132mm FLT Platform with a ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro!
06:41
A Video Tour of My Astro-Physics 130mm Starfire EDT f/8.35 APO Platform
07:14
A Tour of My Askar FRA400 72mm f/5.6 Quintuplet Astrograph Platform!
04:36
Astrophotography - Then and Now: Reviewing My Progress!
10:27
2-Minute Tutorial: Using Logos and Watermarks with Your Astro Images!
12:35
2-Minute Tutorial: A Simple Use of SubframeSelector to Prescreen Subs!
14:01
2-Minute Tutorial: Using the Blink Process to Assess & Cull Your Subs!
11:41
2-Minute Tutorial: Using the FindingChart Process!
11:54
2-Minute Tutorial: Using the AnnotateImage Script!
08:22
2-Minute Tutorial: Using the DarkStructureEnhance Script!
10:24
2-Minute Tutorials: Using Real Time Previews!
08:59
2-Minute Tutorial: Using Previews in Pixinsight!
15:24
2-Minute Tutorial: Removing Gradients with DBE (OK - I really blew the 2-minute part big time!)
08:55
2-Minute Tutorial: Using SPCC to Color Calibrate Your Image!
07:29
2-Minute Tutorial: Setting Up the New SpectroPhotometric Color Calibration (SPCC) Tool
10:36
Welcome to Cosgrove's Cosmos!
18:47
Getting Your Astro Images Published!
08:10
2-Minute Tutorial: Using MultScaleLinearTransform (MLT) for Sharpening and Nose Reduction!
08:12
2-Minute Tutorial: Using the MultiScaleLinearTransform tool to Explore Wavelets1
10:14
2-Minute Tutorial: Exploring Wavelet Layers with the ExtractWaveletLayers Script!
06:39
2-Minute Tutorial: Using Local Histogram Equalization to Enhance Detail!
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About
Astrophotography can be an awesome thing. Just think about it - an everyday person sets up some gear on their driveway and captures some photons that have been traveling for thousands, and in some cases, millions of years through the universe before they entered their telescope and were captured by their camera! You can create images that, until now, you only saw produced by professional observatories.
In 2019 I retired and started my journey into Astrophotography. It was a bit like Alice falling into the looking glass: Choosing gear, assembling it into a useful configuration, setting up, polar alignments, pate solving, meridian flips, camera cooling, focusing methods, binning, Sequence control, calibration frames, stacking, image preprocessing, & Image processing - it can make your head spin if not explode.
I finally sorted all of that out - and I plan to use this channel & my website to share my results & learnings.
Visit my Website: /www.CosgrovesCosmos.com
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