Recently I was allowed to using a remote Takahashi FSQ106 in Australia to do some testing of the equipment. Using this setup with a SBIG STL11000 color ccd images were made of the Eta Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) and Omega Centauri. Eta carina: Exposure: 5x600s Omega Centauri: Exposure: 14x300s
Mosaic taken remotely with the fsq106 and sbig stl11000 one shot color ccd camera at the siding spring observatory in New South Wales, Australia. This image was taken over 3 consecutive days and consists of 4 panels. Each panel was made of 5 images of 15 minutes. So total effective exposure is 1.25 hours and …
Messier 13 or M13 (also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster) is a globular cluster of about 300,000 stars in the constellation of Hercules. Telescope: TEC-140 Camera: QSI-583ws Exposure: Luminance: 19×300 and 10×600 R,G,B: 12×300 each Total: 5,4 hours
Last year (2013) I visited with my wife and children for the first time a holiday house in Daun, Germany. There I got in touch with some of the members of the Astronomische Vereinigung Vulkaneifel (AVV). This group has taken up the responsibility to keep the Hoher List observatory in Schalkenmehren (near Daun) partly working …
This image of M51 was taken over a period of about 4 years. My first image ever taken was of this galaxy and recently I decided to shoot it again. All data from the last 4 years, taken with a C11, Skywatcher ED80, Robtics ED110 and TEC140 were combined to get this result. Further more …
Imagery of M51 taken during the last two nights by myself (luminance) with a TEC-140 and imagery in RGB from beginning this month by Michael Van Doorn (www.dutchastrocolors.com) using his Hyperstar C11. Telescopes: TEC-140 / C11 hyperstar Camera’s: QSI583ws / SXVR-H18 Exposure time: 14h (70×10 min L, 120 min total RGB) The inverted image shows …
NGC 4631 is a big beautiful spiral galaxy seen edge-on (bottom left) only 25 million light-years away towards the small northern constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy’s slightly distorted wedge shape suggests to some a cosmic herring and to others the popular moniker of The Whale Galaxy. Either way, it is similar in size to our …
Recently I have been working on image data from M81/M82. The image was a combination of my own data together with the data of Michael van Doorn. I had the feeling there should be more possible with this dataset and I found a great image of this region of Neil Fleming. After being in contact …
Recently there was a supernova in M82, the Cigar galaxy. Last 2 nights I could image this supernova together with the ‘sister’ galaxy of M82, which is M81, aka Bode’s galaxy. Michael van Doorn also made images of the same area with his Hyperstar including a lot of H-alpha data. Michael shared his data and I combined …
This image is a combination of my own H-alpha imagery together with color information from the Digitized Sky Survey made by the Palomar telescope. The Poss-2 red and blue data is used for the color generation. This shows what result is possible if you combine professional and amateur data in one image. Version 2: