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This past Summer, Caden Gobat interned with Cloud Break Optics. Take a look at his experience while here, as he learned Astrophotography from the ground up.

With the release of the new QHY600, there have been a couple of interesting connectivity and setup things we’ve come across we wanted to share here for customer reference.  We offer step-by-step set up instructions for the 64-bit capture software, N.I.N.A..

In this blog entry, we cover just why a regulated cooled camera is so beneficial for deep sky astrophotography.

In this entry we discuss precisely what "Back Focus" or "Metal Back Distance" is within astrophotography. We have also created a useful calculator tool to be able to determine your back distance needs for your own system!

In the final installment of this blog series, we cover vignetting, dust spots, and flat frame calibration.

In this installment, we cover things that make it into our pixels that we don't want, and the calibration frames to mitigate their effects.

Part 5 of the blog series Astrophotography Pixel by Pixel. In this episode, we take a look at some characteristics of light that gives rise to color, and also the inner workings of one-shot-color and monochromatic cameras with their associated filters.

Part 4 of the blog series Astrophotography, Pixel by Pixel. In this installment, we cover what happens when your pixels are actually measured and the ADC unit, as well as revisit the effects of Gain and ISO settings in relation to the ADC.

Part 3 of a series of posts looking at Astrophotography down on a single-pixel level. Here we discuss the effects of Gain/ISO and Offset settings on your camera.

Part 2 of our Astrphotography, Pixel by Pixel blog series. Here we cover the effects of focal ratio on your imaging system.