Four nights chasing sub-arcsecond seeing at 2,396 m, with lucky-imaging capture and stacking.
From, per person
$2,240
No charge today · free changes until 14 days out
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Marta Oquendo
Resident astronomer, La Palma
A technical trip about one thing: resolution. Marta teaches how to identify the two-hour window when the air steadies, and how to capture 8,000 frames and throw away 7,400 of them. Expect to spend as much time on capture settings as at the eyepiece.
Star testing, collimation, and learning to grade seeing on the Pickering scale by eye.
High frame-rate capture with an ADC, working the Cassini division and the ring shadow.
Full derotation workflow — three-minute captures stacked into a single rotation-corrected frame.
Mosaic capture along the terminator, then processing every frame from the week.
Level
Enthusiast
You own a scope or camera and know your way around the sky.
“Steady air is rarer than dark air. Learn to recognise it and your whole hobby changes.”