Monthly Archives: January 2024

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

 in Blog  tagged adieu / adios / Farewell / good bye

In case you don’t recognize it, the title of this post is taken from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams.  This is to announce that I am closing the business side of Wa-chur-ed Observatory.  Sales have slowed to a trickle, and although that is largely due to my not putting any effort into it, I think the time has come to formally give it up.  When I get around to it I will remove the product listings from this website.  Later in the year the website will disappear completely, but I will continue to “blog” and post […]

The March of Time

 in Blog  tagged AI / IC443 / Jellyfish Nebula / PixInsight / re-processed / Russel Croman

No, the above image (IC443, aka the Jellyfish Nebula) is not “first light” from my new observatory – that’s still waiting on a few things, including the weather.  The data for this image was captured back in 2015, using all different (and generally less good) equipment.  But I’ve re-processed it using modern software (PixInsight and various add-ons to it) to demonstrate how powerful these tools have become.  Below is the original image, as posted on this website back in 2015: Aside from being cropped a little tighter, this is clearly the same image, and yet the difference is remarkable.  The […]