I found an old spotting scope that my grandfather used for bird watching. It has a variable zoom and can go between a magnification of 9x to 30x. The weather was nice, and I decided to mount it to my camera’s tripod and use it to look at the moon. The mounting system between the…
Series Overview You can split any project into two parts. The part that you really are excited to do, and everything else. The part you’re excited about often gets most of your attention, and everything else usually gets “just enough” attention to get it done. For example, the question of “What screw should I use…
Free Post Processing In this post I will walk you through post processing a set of astrophotography images using only free programs. Getting the Data Let’s start with getting our raw images. I’m going to be using a 8-in Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a Cannon EOS Rebel T2i. I am using an advanced GT star…
Rockets are hard. Even when you’ve checked every joint, tightened every screw, and re-rolled your parachute 3 times something can still go wrong. During the same launch as my level one cert flight, there was a catastrophic failure in a different rocket. Just as it was coming off the launch pad, it burst apart into…
