Mike Lewinski and Jay Shaffer discussing the “Holy Grail” of astrophotography, a term used for capturing time-lapses that transition smoothly from day to night.
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Category: Astrophotography
White streak mystery solved?
An unexpected G2-class geomagnetic storm occurred during the early hours of May 17th, sparked by the glancing blow of a Coronal Mass Ejection. Originally expected to miss Earth, the CME was launched on May 12th by an erupting magnetic filament in the sun’s northern hemisphere. During the May 17th storm, auroras appeared as far south as New Mexico where I captured […]
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How Many Starlink Satellites are Too Many?
In today’s Astro Academy segment, we will be discussing Starlink satellites with my friend, sometimes collaborator, Dark Sky Advocate, Network Engineer, and Astro-photographer, Mike Lewinski. Mike a member of Crestone Colorado’s Dark Sky Committee, and has been a presenter at Crestone’s Dark Sky Festival, and he is a night sky photographer and Time-lapse creator […]
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C.A.O. Adds New Meteor Detector
“No Meteor Undetected” is the motto of the Global Meteor Network. Skylapser and the Cielito Azul Observatory are joining the Global Meteor Network to help with that vision. The goal of this project is to observe meteors, by a global network of cameras pointed at the night sky. Each camera is connected to a Raspberry […]
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Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE is WOW!
I had great hopes for the PANSTARRS comet earlier this year, but it didn’t pan out. Then there was C/2020 F8 Swan, and it fizzled out too. When I heard that NEOWISE was discovered in March and they thought it would be visible to the naked-eye, I was skeptical. And then at the begining of […]
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How to Tell if it is an Aircraft, Satellite, or Meteor in Your Night Time-lapses
Was that a top secret military aircraft, or a classified satellite or a meteor burning through the atmosphere in your time-lapse? We show you how to tell the difference. Satellite database: https://www.heavens-above.com/ Aircraft database: https://flightaware.com/ Report a meteor: https://www.amsmeteors.org
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