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Optolong L2 Filters Tested: The April 2026 ScopeTrader Issue
Monday, April 6, 2026 by Richard Harris
Welcome to April, where galaxies are in full bloom. Here in Missouri the skies are finally starting to settle into something usable. If the pattern holds like it usually does, we tend to get our most stable stretch somewhere between April 10th and the end of the month. Those are the nights where ...

Back to the Moon
Saturday, April 4, 2026 by Richard Harris
I never get tired of the Moon. Not because it is mysterious or because it needs a story to make it worth looking at. I get tired of plenty of things. The Moon is not one of them. If you have ever pointed a telescope at the terminator line and watched craters snap into contrast, you already know w...

ASCOM Flat Panel Buddy for Astrophotography 4-16 inch from Astro-Smart
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 by Richard Harris
When the sky gives you a steady, clean night, you do not want to spend it guessing. You do not want to hold a panel up to the scope and wonder if the brightness is right, or stop your sequence just to dial things in again. That kind of interruption breaks the rhythm of the night. That is where an...
Turning discarded astrophotography data into discoveries with SpacePixels
Thursday, March 26, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
As astrophotographers, we spend so much time using rejection algorithms during stacking to perfectly erase anything that moves across our frames. But I started thinking about all the dynamic data we are throwing away, like faint asteroids, satellites, comets, streaks and other slow moving objects th...
