Rich Wilbourn
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Rich Wilbourn
@astrorich.bsky.social
Retired project manager living in Houston, Texas. Nature photographer, amateur astronomer, birder, music lover, movie fan, animal lover, Progressive in a Red State, happily married, grandfather.
All photos are my own unless otherwise stated.
Can you see it?
September 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Well, it’s on Fox so …
July 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Thanks. That was two full nights of imaging on just a single target.
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Another approach is the SeeStar computerized telescope. They’re really amazing and easy to use.
April 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I don’t know of any. Sorry. The model I was using actually came from the factory modified. That’s why the call it the Ra (a for astrophotography). They’re great for wide field astro images. Be sure to stop down your lens a couple of stops too.
April 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
You’re fortunate to live in such a beautiful place.

This was with a Canon Ra mirrorless camera that’s modified for astrophotography attached to a Redcat51 250mm telescope, on an IOptron GEM28 mount. Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop. The image was cropped significantly.
April 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Well, don’t give up. I shot this back in 2021 and have since got better at post-processing. Went back and reprocessed this one.
And you got to see the eclipse. I got clouded out.
April 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM