QuadElements

Great rounds with great people during the afternoon open mat.

Lucky wasn't much damage. Managed to pull the cable to the go pro away from the flight controller, so had to build a new one and replace the props. Easypeasy.

New to the family is the SpeedyBee 5" HD, running the Argus Pro F722 flight controller and ESC, TBS crossfire nano, and DJI O3 air unit, xing 2306 1755kv motors and HQ DP 5x4.3x3 props

Big Bend trip February 2023

A couple of photos from this afternoon. The last one is my favorite.

Texas sunrise

Beautiful West Texas sky's.

Good morning, Midland!

If you want to look at the same place and see different things, look at the same place from different perspectives!

The Sturgeon super moon 12-Aug 2022.

Going through some more photos and trying to get them processed. This is M51A a spiral galaxy that's 23.16 million light-years from earth.

My first fully processed astro image. It is of M31 (Andromeda) it is 2.5 million light-years from earth.

3 hours 52 minutes and 50 seconds of image data

77 light frames
15 dark frames
10 lights
10 bias

Sky Guider Pro Mount
William Optics RedCat 51
Canon EOR R
ASI120MM w/30mm Guide Scope
Guided using PHD2

Image processed through Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Midland!

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We are so excited to announce the 5 winners of our Oh Snap! Photo Contest 📸😍

🏆 GRAND PRIZE WINNER:
🏅 RUNNER UP: Chasity Cochran
🏅 RUNNER UP: .stephanie06
🏅 RUNNER UP: Gianna Cerda
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Thank you to everyone that entered their amazing photos! We loved seeing all the wonderful memories captured.

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Been a while but finally started processing some of the deep sky images I've taken. This is M51a

A few images from the Star Spangled Salute last night downtown Midland

A few pictures from the light show last night.

Another before and after.

Working on some before and after in photoshop, what do you think?

At it again, still not very good at this stuff especially in the post processing part but I've never backed down from a challenge. Tonight I'm trying to capture the ring Nebula, it is the remnants of a dying star.

The beautiful colors of summer, first image is RAW, second has minor exposure, contrast and saturation adjustment along with curve adjustments.

Hopefully I can make this picture more understandable. The image is from a secondary camera and scope mounted to the primary one. The image is send to a program wich tracks a designated star and tells my mout how fast to move. The goal is to keep it around 1 to 3 arc seconds or 1 to 3/60 of a degree of arc

1 - 5 minute long exposure of M51a with my Canon EOS R and Redcat 51. I have about 1 hour of data just did a meridian flip and about to start back up.

Remember don't touch your rig when the autoguider is running