Category Archives: AstroImagers

This meeting is a bit of a new equipment review,  featuring Craig Bobchin’s experience imaging with the Sky Watcher AZ-GTi.   This is a very low cost alt-az, dual-axis motorized go-to […]

David Searle gives us an intro to the Sequence Generator Pro (SGPro) software package for automating our imaging.  His talk includes a description of his own equipment setup and demonstrates […]

OCA AISIG member shots from the Jan. 20th lunar eclipse.

Member Dave Pearson gives us a “tour” of his Anza site observatory, and a new remote observatory in New Mexico which he is in the process of outfitting. He discusses […]

Last month’s SpaceX / SAOCOM 1A launch was another photogenic evening launch.  At this meeting members of the AISIG who photographed the launch will present images and discuss how they […]

Alan Smallbone presents some alternative software for  astrophoto processing.  See the Presentation Slides for the notes as well as links to the discussed software.

Kyle Coker gives us a “tour” of his multi-scope observatory located at the OCA Anza site and discuss how to use automated telescope control to increase imaging productivity: Part 1 “Evolution of a Man Cave” Part 2 “Overview of CCD … Continue reading →

Bruce Waddington discusses autoguiding tips, problems and solutions.  Bruce also answers specific questions about PHD2 (Bruce is one of the primary developers of PHD2). A copy of the presentation slides […]

Jim Windlinger discusses equipment and techniques for solar imaging, focusing on his specialty – timelapse solar imaging. Presentation slides: http://www.windlinger.net/projects/20180705-ai-sig/OCA%20AISIG%20Presentation%207-2018.pdf Solar timelapse movie example by Jim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDfsNTQFmAA

Sam Saeed covers planetary imaging setups and post-processing of images. Presentation Slides