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
Photo of Orions Nebula circa 2024
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.