Getting back under the stars after a long, cloudy stretch. A thirty-minute drive to dark skies at Camp Floyd, Utah, two moonless nights, and finished images of M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, and M13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules.
A three-stage journey through the Orion Nebula, tracing my growth in astrophotography from a smart telescope to a full mono LRGB + narrowband workflow, and the lessons learned processing a 45-hour HDR image with nearly 3,000 exposures.
I built PFR Sentinel because I was tired of logging into a remote observatory just to see if my pier was okay. What started as a small script became a purpose-built tool shaped by community feedback and vibe coding.
