At no appreciable loss of quality, the screenshots on all my tutorials have been changed from PNG format to JPEG format. Since Weebly's (my website host) server can at times be a little slow, this was done to ensure screenshots load faster (especially if you open them full-size). The total screenshot filesize for some tutorials has dropped to under 1/3 of the original (the narrowband example tutorial dropped from 299MB to 86.4MB). The only tutorial that still uses PNG screenshots is my PixInsight pre-processing tutorial, which ironically goes up in total filesize on JPEG format. 

​A long time coming, a new PixInsight tutorial has been finished. This one is on a subject many have asked me about for over a year - Narrowband Hubble Palette. To date, my tutorials have only covered how to make bi-colour narrowband images but not Hubble Palette narrowband images, despite me having made several of my own. The omission is now rectified with the addition of this new tutorial, which you can read by following this link. 

​​A few days ago, PixInsight version 1.8.6 was released, with a quick bugfix release following it. At the time of typing this, we are on version 1.8.6.1448. This has brought with it several new things, highlighted in detail in this official forum thread. Following installation, you will need to reactivate your license as they made changes to the licensing system. The purpose of the tutorial update however was because SubframeSelector was officially made a process rather than an included script. 

Though I did not post about it at the time, pretty much the day after finishing my previous image on the NGC2146 Dusty Hand Galaxy, I finished working on my NGC7814 Little Sombrero Galaxy image. Lack of time and my new-found addiction to the game Battlefield V have driven me away from posting about it, until now. 

Despite the apparent inactivity on this website, imaging is always on-going, so long as weather allows. Last night I was able to finish work on the NGC2146 Dusty Hand Galaxy, a target rarely imaged by the looks of it. At least there only appears to be a handful of images of this target online. It is pretty close to Polaris so it can essentially be imaged all year round, all night long.