I spend a great deal of time tinkering with and testing the imaging setups at Carleton. In the last few years, I have been in charge of COSMOS, our astronomy club. During that time, I have been largely responsible for using, maintaining, and teaching others to use our computerized telescopes. Among my pet projects, I have converted out setups from the Apple ecosystem to a Windows one built on N.I.N.A. I have also helped to implement guiding, install and rebuild out setupts for a new Celestron platform, and expand our postprocessing pipeline. Here are a few more recent test photos with the new setupts.

Photo of Eagle Nebula circa 2023

Pillars of Creation (M 16)

Photo of Orions Nebula circa 2024

Orion Nebula *(M42 and M43)

While not used for science anymore, and very difficult to image on, I also use the historical 16 inch telescope, particularly when there are open houses, or for events like lunar eclipes.

The historic 16.2" 1890 Brashear telescope.

Orion Nebula *(M42 and M43)