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The Al Nagler Saturnday interview with Eli Goldfine
Monday, March 30, 2026 by Eli Goldfine
Editor’s Note: Albert “Al” Nagler, founder of Tele Vue Optics and one of the most beloved figures in amateur astronomy, passed away on October 27, 2025, at the age of 90, fittingly with a telescope in hand. For more than half a century, Al’s innovations transformed backyard ...
Seeing color clearly with color science tools
Thursday, March 26, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
Spend enough hours staring at a screen trying to tame a stacked image and you learn that color is not a flavor choice. It is a measurement problem, full of assumptions about spectra, sensors, displays, and our own eyes. We publish images on the web, and the web speaks sRGB by default. That means eve...
Automating Astrophotography with PULSAR
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 by Russ Scritchfield
PULSAR is a general purpose software system for reduction and processing of astronomical CCD and CMOS imaging data. Each tool performs a single well defined operation on FITS images, and the tools compose into automated pipelines that carry your work from raw frames to calibrated, combined, and enha...
The Universe, Live: Rubin Observatory Flips the Switch on Real-Time Space Monitoring
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 by Richard Harris
The NSF DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has turned on a new capability for astronomy by issuing its first stream of scientific alerts that report what is changing across the night sky. This is the start of a real time discovery service at observatory scale. NSF DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory launches r...