Year: 2025

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First Light with the ZWO Seestar S50

  • 2025-12-22
A Technical Evaluation of a Compact Astrophotography System The first astrophotography session carried out with the ZWO Seestar S50 proved to be far more interesting than its size and class might initially suggest. The Seestar S50 is a fully integrated, highly portable all-in-one system designed around maximum automation of observation and imaging workflows. Despite this,…
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MM101 – The Pinwheel Galaxy

  • 2025-04-26
The Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101, NGC 5457) is a spectacular face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, located about 21 ± 0.8 million light-years from Earth. With a vast diameter of around 170,000 light-years, it is almost twice as large as the Milky Way, making it one of the largest disk galaxies in our…
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M51 – The Whirlpool Galaxy

  • 2025-04-12
Session Details – Backyard Imaging of M51 This particular image of M51 was captured from my own backyard observatory, located under Bortle Class 4 skies — dark enough to reveal the galaxy’s core and inner arms visually through the telescope, yet still with some light pollution glow on the horizon. The night offered excellent transparency…