Saturday, December 15, 2018

Flame Nebula NGC2024

First trials to capture the flame nebula or NGC2024. East of Alnitak (the most "left" star of the belt of Orion) the emission nebula NGC2024 can be found.
Picture was taken on TAL200K and stacking with DeepSkyStacker. Editing using CS4.

Friday, December 14, 2018

46P Wirtanen and Geminid Meteor


Two pictures of comet 46P Wirtanen with Geminid Meteors. Nighscape picture taken with Nikon D7500 and Tamron 10-24mm. Insert was taken using Nikon D7500 with TAL200K f/8.5.



Startrail with 11mm lens

The idea was to take pictures of the Geminid meteor shower but at the time the shutter went open only a few showed up. In stead of deleting the pictures I stacked the pack using startrails.de
The pictures are taken with a Nikon D7500 and Tamron 11mm lens. A total of 72 pictures, each ISO1600 15s. The view is towards the south-eastern horizon,





Orion Nebula M42


A single shot of the Orion Nebula M42 taken with Nikon D7500 on TAL200K. Very limited editing using CS4. Some high clouds, temperatur -4°C and 95% humitidy.


Thursday, December 13, 2018

Perihelion Comet 46P Wirtanen


I took some picture of Comet 46P Wirtanen, currently located in constellation Taurus and it was a couple of minutes after perihelion.
Conditions : Temperature -1,3°C, no clouds and 100% humidity. This time I was not able to see the comet with the naked eye. I did see the comet with my bino 10x25.
Pictures are taken with TAL200K f/8.5 using Nikon D7500. Limited editing with CS4.




Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Comet 46P Wirtanen

Another picture of comet 46P Wirtanen. No louds, humidity 100% and light pollution in the south direction. Picture taken with exposure of 30s, ISO3200 and very limited editing.


Monday, December 10, 2018

Comet 46P Wirtanen

In between the clouds I was able to make some pictures of comet 46P Wirtanen. Humidity was 100% and moderate seeing.