Saturn

Picture of Saturn yesterday evening with bad seeing. No really a sharp picture. Setting ZWO224MC on TAL200K f/8.5 with ADC and Barlowx2. Stacking with AutoStakkert! and final editing using CS4.

Jupiter and yellow filter

Picture of Jupiter yesterday evening. Seeing was bad, so pictures are not sharp. 

Setting : ASI224MC camera on TAL200K f/8.5 together with ADC and Barlowx2. I used this time also a yellow filter to boost up the contrast. Each picture is the result of 60s AVI movie which was stacked using AutoStakkert!. Final editing using CS4.

60.000 Visitors

Awesome... reaching 60.000 visitors of my astroblog. Thank you all :)

I'm boarding Mars 2020 Perseverance

Yes, tomorrow July 30, I will be leaving Earth at 13h local time (UT11h) and will be travelling to Mars. My journey starts at Cape Canaveral in Floride platform SLC41 and I will be landing on Mars, Jezero Crater, Feb 18, 2021. The rocket used is a ULA Atlas V rocket. 

Last March I was visiting Cape Canaveral and SLC41 with Atlas V under construction for launching Mars2020 Perseverance. 

 

Compilation of Comet Neowise C/2020 F3

I made a video of my best pictures of Comet Neowise C/2020 F3. The video is made using Movie Maker. All pictures are made with Nikon D7500 and taken this month July on different locations: Donk, Zichem (Demer River) and Averbode.  Pictures are a combination of both single shot and stacked ones. The stacked pictures are realised with tracking on an AZEQ6 mount. Royalty free Music was added from www.bensound.com.

For the video see this link from Google Drive. 

Proud: New personal Facebook record with Saturn

My most recent picture of Saturn was posted on Facebook Sterrenkunde Forum VVS and got about 76 likes. My previous personal record was 61 with comet Neowise C/2020 F3. 

Jupiter and Saturn

Pictures of Jupiter and Saturn combined. Both pictures taken using TAL200K f/8.5 with ASI224MC, Barlow x2 and ADC.