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Last night we went with our astronomical society into the Dutch polders to look if we could see some Perseids. Luckily the clouds went away for a few hours and I have been able to see some beautiful Perseids and capture about 10 of them…. And an image showing the rotation of the Earth: Time …

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NGC 7331 (in the lower left of the image) is a galaxy similar to our own galaxy in the constellation Pegasus at a distance of about 50 million lightyears. It was discovered in 1784 by William Herschel. Below NGC 7331 a few other galaxies can be seen that are part of the so called Deer …

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This was my most elusive target until now. Kronberger 61 is a planetary nebula only discovered in 2011 by an amateur astronomer while searching through the kepler satellite imagery. This nebula has a surface brightness of much less than 25 mag/arcsec^2 and therefore is very hard to detect. This image was made using 30 minute …

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