Since the weather hasn’t been very good for astrophotography the last 1,5 months I have been working on older data to see what I can get out of it. In October/November 2012 I imaged Melotte 15 in the Heart nebula, which is one of my favorite objects. “The bright star cluster [known as an “open …
Recently I have been working on Hubble data of M57. When processing the data I found one of the stars moving between the images. Triggered by this I tried to find more data that could show the motion. I found some old images made in 1922 and around 1959 made by a 100-inch and a …
This image was the result of combining my Hubble image created from 2011 WFC3 data and data from the Subaru Telescope (8.2m) in Hawaii, processed by Robert Gendler. He kindly shared the data and the final result is an astonishing image showing the outer shells of the M57 planetary nebula. More info about this nebula …
This image shows the most detailed image taken of M57, until present day. The famously named “Ring Nebula” (also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 or NGC 6720) appears in the northern constellation of Lyra and is located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm. It is one of the most prominent examples of a planetary nebula, the gaseous …
This morning I had a great view from my son’s bedroom window showing Venus and the Moon. Later when I checked the image it showed that by coincidence I also caught Mercury. This is my first Mercury sighting and I’m happy with it… 🙂
Here is an image taken during the opposition 2012 of Jupiter with its moon Io. A nice transit was predicted, but unfortunately about 2 minutes before the transit clouds came in. C11 @ f25 / DMK21-618 / Red-filter