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For the experienced who use PixInsight (paid) user, the latest "The Astro Imaging Channel" (TAIC) YouTube is worth watching to get some more info from the writers of Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch (GHS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DTmKTnEhvM

I waited a day or so to see if anyone else would notice this APOD. I BIG pat on the back for this image that got WORLD recognition of one of our members. This is a BIG thing. I also think a few other club members were out on the same night and should also be suitably praised for their similar image as I suspect they were out and about at the same

Have you noticed our Buy & Sell chat group?

It's a bit of an experiment to see if it is useful for members. 

We were going to run the occasional boot sale nights at St Ignatius before COVID disrupted our 'Physical' meetings but we thought as an bonus to members, you could try this chat group before the normal

NACAA Stream 6 - 1922 Total Solar Eclipse & Five Total Solar Eclipses coming to Australia

1922 Total Solar Eclipse

5 Total Solar Eclipses coming to Australia over the next 18 years

BOM reference

The 2021–22 La Niña event continues,

An 8th of April 2022 YouTube presentation I thought was good by the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club in the USA -> Improving the Performance of Your Imaging Mount https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_Et2Rt50Y

It's a bit long but the slide presentation has a lot of practical

For those that have not noticed the latest NINA (nightly builds) with plugins, here is a YouTube on focusing that I think is helpful and also demonstrates a useful plugin called Hocus Focus

NINA was already a great imaging control app moving way ahead of the likes of SGPro and it's free and uses SDK access to cameras, but the NINA