Mary McIntyre

Recent articles by Mary McIntyre

Prevent your camera lens from fogging up by making your own dew heater. Credit: Mary McIntyre.

DIY Astronomy Make a camera lens dew heater

Create a model solar and lunar eclipse for a school science project. Credit: Mary McIntrye

How to make an eclipse model

How to make a mobile Solar System for a child's bedroom. Step 7

Make a Solar System mobile for kids

How make a model of a comet. Credit: Mary McIntyre

DIY Astronomy Make a model of a comet

Raspberry pi meteor detector. Credit: Mary McIntyre

Set up a Raspberry Pi meteor detector

Kemble's Cascade asterism in Camelopardalis. Credit: Alan Dyer/Stocktrek Images

An astronomer’s tour of autumn and winter targets

A Venus Moon captured on 26 February 2014. Credit: Mary McIntyre

20 night-sky objects to observe in 2020

The final edited image of the solar prominence is altogether cleaner, sharper and shows more fine detail. Credit: Mary McIntyre

Astrophotography guides

Image processing Using Focus Magic to sharpen solar images

A section of Mary's Milky Way mosaic. Credit: Mary McIntyre

Astrophotography guides

Astrophotography guide Create a Milky Way mosaic

Left: Mary's starting image of the Moon, taken with a Canon EOS 1100D DSLR through an 8-inch Ritchey-Chrétien with focal-reducer. Right: Mary's final edited shot, showing much greater distinction between the lunar highlands and maria. Credit: Mary McIntyre.

Astrophotography guides

Remove noise from your astrophotos of the Moon

How to tweak your star trail images

Astrophotography

How to fine tune star trail images