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 …
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 …
By now it’s already 5 weeks ago that the Total Solar Eclipse took place in the US which millions of people looked forward to for a long time. Now I’m finally finished with processing most of the data of the eclipse and I want to share the results here. About 1,5 years ago we decided …
Comet 2014/Q2 Lovejoy taken from Siding Springs, Australia using the Tzec Maun Telescope. I only could use 6 x 1 minute of data (I had a bit more, but somehow there were many high clouds I think introducing some heavy gradients). It’s one of my first comet images like this, but there is still a …
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 is my best Jupiter image until now I think. Yesterday I caught about 8 RGB series with my C11 and a 2.5x powermate of Jupiter consisting of 3 movies of 20s @ 60 fps. Using Winjupos I derotated them and combined all of them which gave this result. I’m astonished how good the seeing …
Last night I went to Kinderdijk to photograph comet Panstarrs. The result can be seen here: Here is an animation showing the comet setting about an hour after sunset: Here is an image showing the comet’s skytrace:
Tonight I took the opportunity to photograph comet Panstarrs that is racing through our skies now. Unfortunately the focus was not perfect, but it is clearly visible on this image: And this is one day later:
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