{"id":422351,"date":"2026-01-21T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422351"},"modified":"2026-01-21T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:45:13","slug":"in-unrelated-news-im-back-into-astrophotography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=422351","title":{"rendered":"In Unrelated News: I\u2019m Back Into Astrophotography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Roy Spencer, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 19th, 2026, by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got sucked back in when I learned about the ZWO ASIAir controller that \u201csimplifies\u201d some of the tasks that kept me from improving my telescope skills, so the telescope just sat for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the learning curve was still pretty steep. I now have an autofocuser, a guide scope and camera, and it took me forever to get the autoguiding to work (which I had to make myself understand and use because my new telescope mount has a periodic error in the gears that makes little star streaks back and forth).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, after I practiced enough in my suburban, moderately light-polluted backyard with some pretty good results, last night I took the rig out to a dark sky location on Alabama\u2019s Lake Guntersville. This is the result: 4.25 hours of 5-minute images processed in Pixinsight and stretched and color-enhanced in Adobe Camera Raw. I was blown away\u2026 click on it to do some pixel-peeping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I got sucked back in when I learned about the ZWO ASIAir controller that \u201csimplifies\u201d some of the tasks that kept me from improving my telescope skills, so the telescope just sat for several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":422353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xpbWF0ZS1zY2llbmNlLnByZXNzXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDI2XC8wMVwvMGludGVncmF0aW9uX2F1dG9jcm9wX0FCRS1kZWJsdXItZGVub2lzZS1jcm9wcGVkLXNjYWxlZC0xLTEwMjR4Njg0LmpwZyIsInR4dCI6IkluIFVucmVsYXRlZCBOZXdzOiBJXHUyMDE5bSBCYWNrIEludG8gQXN0cm9waG90b2dyYXBoeSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNTU4MTI0NDl9.zpRpnzyCOMy6FuTlS5dl75PMlgXKiZCXeA8tbBRDCfUMQ"},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691840852,691840850,691840851],"class_list":{"0":"post-422351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-alabamas-lake-guntersville","9":"tag-dark-sky-location","10":"tag-zwo-asiair-controller","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0integration_autocrop_ABE-deblur-denoise-cropped-scaled-1.jpg?fit=2560%2C1711&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1LS7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":179697,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=179697","url_meta":{"origin":422351,"position":0},"title":"NASA\u2019s Webb Telescope Launches to See First Galaxies, Distant Worlds","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"26\/12\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"From NASA Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0This release was updated on Dec. 25 to reflect the observatory\u2019s release at approximately 870 miles (1,400 kilometers). 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