This image shows the region around Barnard 150, aka the cosmic seahorse and SH2-129, the bat nebula with Outers-4 inside it. This region has a lot to offer to astrophotographers and is quite challenging to capture well. This image was made during our holidays in the Eifel in Germany. Weather forecast was not good for …
This image is a continuation of an image I made in 2014 of the M81/82 galaxy group. I made the images and found signals of integrated flux nebula surrounding the galaxies. Soon after that I got in touch with Neil Fleming who had a splendid image of the IFN in this region on his website …
This is a continuation of a project I started about 2,5 years ago when I worked on a mosaic of Messier 106, made using images of the Hubble Space Telescope. In 2015 I found some new data sources on the internet, including some huge telescope databases with data from professional telescopes. That’s when I decided …
This image is a continuation of an image I made in 2014 of the M81/82 galaxy group. I made the images and found signals of integrated flux nebula surrounding the galaxies. Soon after that I got in touch with Neil Fleming who had a splendid image of the IFN in this region on his website …
A few months ago I was crawling through the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) data and found this very nice dataset of the Draco Triplet. I decided to download it for later use. Now I processed the data and this is the result of the processing. As far as I know this is the image of the …
Two weeks ago I was imaging the Milky Way in Austria. When processing I found something unique (I think). In four of the images a meteor strike with after that an expanding plasma cloud was clearly visible: After combining the first two images I noticed also a possible breakup event that released a blue plasma …
Recently I enjoyed my holidays in Vandans, Austria. Just before this holiday I could pick up a Nikon D810a from Nikon HQ to try it out for 3 weeks. Of course I don’t say no to that. This is a brand new camera that was handpicked and calibrated manually by Nikon (a so-called QC model). …
Image taken during 2 consecutive nights with my TMB92 and QSI583ws. 55x600s = 9,1 hours lum Intriguing to me is the huge galaxy cluster that can be seen if you go straight down from M63 to the bottom and then about the diameter of the galaxy to the right. Here hundreds of small galaxies can …
Recently I made images of M101. Color was not perfect yet, but then I got a message from Irving Pieters who offered to share his data. We combined our data and stacked them together. He also had good colordata, with as a result the attached image. Some of the weak structures around M101 already start …
Full resolution on Flickr Published on Bad astronomy blog About 2 years ago I worked on a mosaic of Messier 106, made using images of the Hubble Space Telescope. Recently I found some new data sources on the internet, including some huge telescope databases with data from professional telescopes. That’s when I decided to see …