Astronomical Twilight

As from next weekend untill the weekend of July 21st, skies will not get fully dark as the Sun will not go below 18° of the Horizon. This is what's called Astronomical Twilight. I was hoping to take some pictures past night during the 30 minutes of "total darkness" but clouds start covering the sky.

Moon and Jupiter - May 26,2018 UT20h30 

Nightscape ISS during Twilight

Passing of ISS during twilight and high clouds. So difficult to get the contrast of ISS on the picture.

Nightscape Certificate

Proud on my Nightscape Certificate.

Urania Afsluiting Werkjaar 2017-2018

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Straks Om 10h start het afsluitingsmoment van het werkjaar van de volkssterrenwacht Urania. Op de agenda staat een voordracht over Space-X en daarna tijd om wat bij te praten met de collega's.

Nightscape ISS

ISS crossed the sky above Averbode at UT 21h38. In total 4 pictures stacked using CS4.

Double rainbow

Double rainbow above #Averbode.

Globular Cluster Messier M5

Globular Cluster Messier M5 or NGC5904 in constellation Serpens is a bright cluster. The cluster is located at a distance of 25.000 light years from Earth.
The pictures are taken on May 7th, 2018 0h50 UT.

Two sets of pictures are taken :
The first set using Nikon D7500 on TAL200K are stacked using CS4. The second set of pictures are made using ASI224MC on TAL200K and stacked using Autostakkert with final editing on CS4.