Mighty Atom

Welcome to the Mighty Atom home page. I apologize that things are pretty rough right now. I hope to clean up this site in the near future. In the meantime, the items below may be of interest.

Astroimages

March 1, 2003: M101 - Clearly a first effort
March 4, 2003: M109 - Taken with Arnie Rosner's Rent-A-Scope (I think)
March 5, 2003: M81 - Grayscale and color (whoops)
March 29, 2003: M63 - Color, with the Rent-A-Scope
April 4, 2003: Rosette Nebula - Taken through the FSQ at NM Skies
April 5, 2003: Double Cluster - FSQ/NM Skies; M81 & M82 - Same setup
April 6, 2003: M13 - Processed to show moving object in lower right
April 10, 2003: M51 - First light through Mewlon 250; needs flats
June 16, 2004: Butterfly Nebula - Nebulosity near Gamma Cygni; first successful effort in H-Alpha
September 21, 2004: Flaming Star Nebula - IC 405 in Auriga; New mount, CCD camera, and H-Alpha filter

Equipment

I built an electroluminescent lightbox - Photos and construction details provided

Software

ImageSequencer 0.6: A program I wrote to allow more flexible image sequencing in CCDSoft
MultiCombine Plugin: Alpha version of a combine plugin for CCDSoft that implements a variety of combine algorithms, including trimmed mean ("sigma") routines. If you wish, you can browse the readme file before downloading.

Email me if you have questions or suggestions