Owen Canavan
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Owen Canavan
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Lead programmer at Gambrinous. Writing all the bugs for Guild of Dungeoneering, Cardpocalypse and Eyes of Hellfire
The opposite. It's this in one image
January 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Telescope with some LEDs
January 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
You don't just take a single photo of the moon. You take a video then stack the best frames to try to eliminate atmospheric distortion.

I took 3min videos, which was about 20gb, then stack the top 20%. Do that for all 4 LRGB filters (sane people use a colour camera).

Then sharpen and combine
January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
It's mainly to visually monitor the telescope (the top of the mount is in the bottom right) and checking for clouds. But I hope to get it working as a safety monitor that can link up with the scopes PC to automatically close the cover in case of clouds/rain.

timelapses & star trails are a bonus
January 4, 2026 at 1:18 PM
it's too much for bluesky
January 3, 2026 at 10:33 PM
the moon is more interesting when it's not full. more shadows on crater limbs etc
January 3, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Just with a monochrome camera with a luminance filter, so it's just black & white. And maybe over sharpened. And too bright in areas. And too contrasty? Would have to play around with settings to get it better.
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
The Chicken Fillet Nebula?
December 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A Flat Panel is essentially a lens cap with a light, so that you can take "flat" calibration frames that are used to remove visual defects on your actual astronomy captures.

Like if you had a smudge on the lens, take a backlit photo of it and remove that from the actual images
December 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM