I welcome your thoughts on this blog or any astroimaging-related topics. You can contact me at deepskyprimer@gmail.com.
–Charlie
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I welcome your thoughts on this blog or any astroimaging-related topics. You can contact me at deepskyprimer@gmail.com.
–Charlie
Deep-sky Imaging 
Nice pictures!
I work for the wvpsc and know youre dad from my work place.He give me the link to this site.
Charles,
I have read your first book “The Deep-Sky Imaging Primer” from the beginning to end. I love the way you explain a lot of the challenging topics of this hobby. I am looking forward to get your second book one of these days.
Thank you.
Thank you, Attila!
Charles please email I’m interested in your thoughts on a telescope video camera for my Orion SkyQuest XT8. Thank you.
I am mostly focused on long-exposure imaging. Using a video camera is known as EAA (Electronically Assisted Astronomy). There is a great community of people who can help you with EAA at https://www.cloudynights.com/forum/73-electronically-assisted-astronomy-eaa/.
Not sure where to contact you, but will there be a print edition of The Astrophotography Planner for 2022. I’ll order the pdf regardless, but I’d like to buy the book.
Hi Heather – I’m hoping to have an updated edition out for print by March. Thanks for your interest!
Charles,
More than anything I wanted to applaud you for bringing to everyone’s attention the influence of latitude on the depth and the duration of darkness. Your presentation of this phenomenon is quite extraordinary. Bravo!
In one way it is personally disappointing since my “main” observatory is located in Eastern Washington at a latitude of 46.8 degrees. It is humbling to realize the degree to which I misunderstood and overlooked the impact of being so north. I have been doing astronomy for decades and somehow the extent of this effect escaped me. Observationally, it is ironic that I always sensed that darkness was more pronounced much later into the night. Mistakenly I attributed this to the decline in general light pollution that was occurring by human behavior/lighting in the wee hours of the morning. I overlooked the actual elevation of the sun during darkness. Rather, my view was very binary and not mathematical at all.
I would love to acquire personal charts for 2 latitudes, one being 46.8 and the other being 33.7. I do not care about the price. I will benefit from any material you are willing to provide that is specific to those latitudes.
Again, your books…..all of them…..are extremely unique and brilliantly written and very beneficial. Again, thank you. When I watched TAIC I was surprised that you didn’t receive more acknowledgment for your contribution to AP education. Your books are not derivative. Rather they are extremely nuanced.
H
Thank you very much, Howard! I really appreciate that. To get custom planners for your locations, please reach out to me at deepskyprimer@gmail.com.