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Vespera 3 and Vespera Pro 2 are released
Sunday, April 12, 2026 by Richard Harris
Welp, this is no doubt that this was planned for everyone's arrival at NEAF 2026. Vaonis has just stirred the smart telescope pot with the release of the Vespera 3 and Vespera Pro 2, and this time it feels like they took a hard look at where they were falling short and decided to fix it properly...
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...
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...
Astronomy software Meridian launches in BETA
Monday, February 23, 2026 by Richard Harris
Meridian is a new native macOS app from Andrew Burwell, that scans your FITS and XISF archive and organizes it into a searchable, visual catalog of your imaging history. After more than ten years of deep sky imaging, the app's creator found that his archive spanned many drives and folder sche...