S30plus

I will keep an updated gallery of images from my ZWO S30 plus. If you compare these images with their counterparts in the “Astro Gallery” post the difference beween a 90mm telescope on a good equatorial mount, and the 30mm S90 portable is quite noticeable. The first two (M51 and M81-82) have a total exposure time of over an hour, with the images pulled directly from the SeeStar with only minimal processing. ...

July 2, 2026 · 1 min · Kent Crispin

Astro Gallery

Well, testing new gallery code; this is a bunch of astrophotography images I made a few years ago:

June 25, 2026 · 1 min · Kent Crispin

Arch and the Chord Gun

Switching from Ubuntu Studio to Arch-KDE – I was nervous at first, because Ubuntu Studio packages complex audio configuration into managability. But it also loads the kitchen sink. And it doesn’t include REAPER, my DAW of choice. Arch doesn’t include REAPER either, but then again, Arch doesn’t include much of anything. Anyway, I have installed Arch, about 20 times, and I’ve installed REAPER, and it works. The audio configuration wasn’t much of a problem – there isn’t much there to get in the way. Just install things as I need them, and reap the rewards of the resulting simplicity. Sometime, though… ...

June 12, 2026 · 3 min · Kent Crispin

Hello World

Hello, world. This is mosqueeto.net, back from the dead. The old site was a WordPress installation that got compromised and started sending spam. Rather than clean it up, I replaced it with this — a plain static site generated by Hugo, served by nginx, with no server-side execution surface to exploit. More posts to come.

May 22, 2026 · 1 min · Kent Crispin