Wow, I never dared hope for this one. Every year, Royal Museums Greenwich holds the ‘astronomer photographer of the year’ contest in which the best astro photos of that year are chosen by a jury of astrophotographers, artists, museum curators and publishers of astronomical magazines. Every year there are about 4500 entries of which about …
Recently I attended a lecture from Jay Gabany at our national astrophotography meeting about intensifying colors in your images. I decided to work on one of my favorite images to see if I could get more out of it. Especially the star colors and delicate structures in the nebula I like a lot in …
Here is a video made by Sky at night magazine of the award ceremony in London. A short explanation of my nominated image by me is shown around 3:36.
Today there was an item on RTL television about astrophotography and my nomination for the Astrophotographer of the year 2013 competition. It’s in Dutch:
On 20th of October 2012 I had the honour to receive the performance price 2012 for my astrophotography from the Dutch Astrophotographical society. I really feel honoured by this award and see it as a great stimulant to continue.
Sun in H-alpha on 28-05-2012. An inverted solar disk is shown with surrounding proms… This image was image of the month on cloudy nights in June 2012…
Here is the final result of my M106 hubble processing. Unfortunately the F435W and F814W data were not clean enough to generate a good color image. So I decided to combine the Hubble data with groundbased data. This is comparable with what was done with the famous Carina Nebula image of Hubble where also groundbased …
Well, this was my hardest processing job until now. Combining the different hubble datasets to get equal colors was really hard. M77 was not fully covered by one dataset, so I had to combine channels of the WFPC2 with different wavelengths and tune the colors to get them to fit. But the result is in …
The Elephant’s Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust in the star cluster IC 1396 – an ionized gas region located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth. The piece of the nebula shown here is the dark, dense globule IC 1396A; it is commonly called the Elephant’s …
Gassendi is a large lunar crater feature located at the northern edge of Mare Humorum. The formation has been inundated by lava during the formation of the mare, so only the rim and the multiple central peaks remain above the surface. The outer rim is worn and eroded, although it retains a generally circular form. …