Blogger isn't always the most intuitive platform to navigate - but it is free and simple to use and manage.
To help you find information quickly on this blog, you can
- use the search bar using key words e.g. Asiair mini
- use the blog menu list by date
- use this page which will be regularly updated https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/12/want-to-find-something-quickly-on-my.html
Regular blog readers will know that I signpost each post in its title. I categorize each post as follows:
- Equipment (tutorials, reviews, techniques)
- Editing tutorials
- Workflow tutorials
- Imaging (sessions, tutorials)
- Technique tutorials
- Reviews
- Whats in the night sky - monthly summaries
- Discussion posts
- Planning tutorials
- Useful category
Under each heading below you will find related posts. The top most is the most recent in that category - so the further you go down the list, the older the posts are.
If you want to find out more about this blog and what my aims, purpose and philosophy are - then you can those answers here:
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/01/what-is-aim-and-purpose-of-my-new.html aims and purpose of this blog
I hope all this will help you navigate the blog more easily and find what it is you are interested in. Let me know how it works out by dropping me a comment in the box at the end of this post.
As always, clear skies, have fun and stay safe out there
Steve
Equipment (tutorials, reviews, techniques)
Equipment how to:
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/beginners-guide-on-how-to-set-up-and.html skywatcher star adventurer 2i
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/01/beginners-guide-to-accessories-you.html accessories for your first telescope
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/01/my-beginners-guide-to-what-different.html types of telescope there are for amateurs
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/01/beginners-guide-to-buying-your-first.html telescope
Equipment reviews:
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/10/ zenithstar 61ii
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/05/another-successful-trial-night-with.html EQM-35-PRO
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/my-first-telescope-skywatcher-star.html skywatcher star discovery 150i wifi GOTO
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/12/editing-tutorial-guide-to-how-i-post.html editing milky way images
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/11/beginners-guide-to-post-editing-stacked.html comets
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/03/learning-to-blend-foreground-image-with.html blending a separate sky and foreground image in affinity photo
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/03/trying-to-learn-techniques-of-blending.html two images into a composite one
Workflow tutorials
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/12/beginner-tutorial-workflow-for-using.html for using SIRIL with Seti Astro python scripts
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/ using sequator
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/01/ original SIRIL workflow at start of 2025
Imaging (sessions, tutorials)
Sessions:
unplanned meridian flips
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/12/imaging-session-ic-63-ghost-of.html IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia
Tutorials:
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/12/beginners-guide-to-camera-setup.html meteor photography
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/07/beginners-guide-to-using-dslr-camera.html star trails
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/beginners-guide-to-taking-your-first_22.html milky way imaging
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/beginners-guide-to-taking-your-first_21.html milky way iumaging - stacking
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/beginners-guide-to-taking-your-first_5.html milky way imaging - composition
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/beginners-guide-to-taking-your-first_20.html milky way settings
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/beginners-guide-to-taking-your-first_19.html milky way imaging - planning
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/beginners-guide-to-taking-your-first.html milky way imaging
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/beginners-guide-to-using-autoguiding.html with ASIair mini and Asiair 120mm mini guide cam
Technique tutorials
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2026/01/technique-tutorial-writing-script-and.html writing a video script and B roll shots checklist
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/06/ taking callibration frames
Reviews
Whats in the night sky - monthly summaries
january 2026 https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2026/01/whats-in-night-sky-for-january-2026.html
december 2025 https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/11/
november 2025 https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/11/whats-happening-in-night-sky-this-month.html
may 2025 https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/05/what-is-happening-in-night-sky-during.html
Discussion posts
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2026/02/practical-decision-trees-for-solving.html Decision making trees for problem solving in astrophotography
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2026/02/what-does-progress-look-like-in-your.html what does progress look like in your post editing skills?
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2026/01/can-we-turn-our-astrophotography.html Is there such a thing as 'tiers of learning' in astrophotography?
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/09/ laptop upgrades
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/03/ First light Optics
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-continue-to-use-dslr-camera-instead.html of a CMOS one?
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/02/have-i-accidently-broken-my-skywatcher.html star adventurer 2i tracker
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/01/what-is-aim-and-purpose-of-my-new.html aims and purpose of this blog
Planning tutorials
https://undersouthwestskies.blogspot.com/2025/08/ planning a milky way shoot
Useful category
