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A standardized image format is something most users take for granted -- JPG, GIF, PNG and even TIFF are household names when it comes to (web)-images & editing. If you use a dSLR, you have gotten used to adding a tool or two, to process the Nikon or Canon RAW formats. With the astronomy cameras, the formats & necessary conversions become a real mess -- especially if you use a one-shot color "OSC" camera.

For this article, I use the eclipse on April 15th 2014 as an example and as a location I have picked San Francisco. The path of the moon & the timing is dependent on your own location and you will have to make adjustments for that. Here are some examples and a bit of background of the various attempts : www.ipernity.com/doc/stargazer95050/album/389379

Supernovae are among the most powerful events in our universe and they emit unimaginable amounts of energy. And long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away that has happened but it took 11.5 million years and only now does this energy reach us, some of it visible to our eyes. Look up at the sky & search for the M82 "Cigar Galaxy" -- it will be over in a few weeks.

Oh my god, it's already 01.15 and I'm still surfing on ipernity (isn't there a nice short commonly agreed on nickname for the site?...like, "ity" or such?)... and I have to be at my work fresh and shiny and wide awake at 06.00... I think I should go to bed now... well, to make it short: I am off this coming weekend for a change (yeah, I work shifts and I am only off every third weekend) and I will leave Friday afternoon to visit my family in Cologne. No updates in the next three days, therefore.…