MICHAEL W. DEAN

I decide whether or not to shoot based on how I feel (enough sleep, etc), the weather….It must be clear for several hours, usually best to start shooting shortly after dawn, when Sun is lower in the sky. This is paradoxical if you’ve done night astro, when you want to shoot things as high in…

Photo of the Sun’s chromosphere in Ha (Hydrogen-Alpha). It’s the best 100 frames stacked from 2000 frames of video (“Lucky Imaging”), each frame of video 5 milliseconds. I’m still learning and new to this, have only shot 5 photos of the Sun. Though a lot of the skills from night astro transfer over. I’m using…

(posted on the SharpCap website, Jan 9, 2026) Feature Request: Customizable Interface Modes I think this should be a feature for every program. If I only use 1/10th of 1 percent of the features in a program, I’d love to be able to hide all the ones I don’t use. Some would say that’s a…

I used these computer screen googles to mirror my laptop monitor (put them on 2D not 3D) They didn’t work on my older laptop but they were plug and play (mirroring screen) with this 14 inch dell laptop that cost me 260 bucks renewed with warranty, and it was fast enough to capture solar video…