Flat earthers are a cult who don't know they are a cult. youtu.be/NbWYKh6GmUU?...

Globular clusters are like mini-galaxies with tens of thousands of closely packed stars. They are often portrayed with blazing cores like suns, the inner regions far too bright for the individual stars to be seen.

Photolab 8's powerful selection options and variety of enhancement tools allow sharpening each area of an image in whatever way that works best. Let's take a step-by-step look at how it's done. youtu.be/sAPHR40HCZ8?...

AI-based sharpeners, unsharp maskers, micro/fine contrast adjustment, the ClearView Plus tool . . . What do they all have in common? They are tools from various apps that use differing strategies to refine detail in an image. youtu.be/eVKOW_0_Bz8?...

LDN 1369 is an open star cluster with nebulosity that looks like a wizard's spire at the center of the Heart Nebula. It is a stellar nursery and home to vast, nonstellar structures. I completed stacking and editing this morning. See the full version at: www.astrobin.com/m04wgv/D/

After two months, I now have 25 hours of integration on the Horsehead Nebula. The project is a long way from done but it is finally getting closer to where I want it. You can see the full res version at: www.astrobin.com/fbm30x/

Focused lifting can bring detail out of even the darkest deep sky objects because digital camera sensors capture information we cannot see. Let's take a deeper dive into the theory behind this, and use it to reveal the hidden structure of the most famous dark nebula: the Horsehead.

The famed Horsehead Nebula, IC 434, revealed after 25 hours of exposure. This project is not done yet, and I plan to gain at least another 9 hours of exposure time in my efforts to reveal the dark, hidden substance of the nebula. You can see the full version on Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/fbm30x/E/

NGC 1333 is a visually stunning stellar nursery with stars embedded deep in the molecular cloud, causing the cloud to glow in places. You can see the full res version at the Sky Story Astrobin: www.astrobin.com/8jaxh8/F/

A gallery of astronomical objects imaged at the Sky Story Observatory is available at our Astrobin site: www.astrobin.com/fbm30x/D/

It's not hard to find the center of the cosmos. It turns out it's everywhere. youtu.be/A-zLtdWiuTk

My first post here. Looking forward to sharing my passion for natural history, astronomy and astrophotography on Blue Sky.