Bow-Tie (Vlinderdas) Nebula NGC40

NGC 40 or Caldwell 2 or Bow-Tie (Vlinderdas) Nebula is a planetary nebula (magnitude 11) locaed in constellation Cepheus and about 3500ly away from Earth. NGC 40 is the first object of Herschel 400-list. 

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6. ISO 3200, lights 16x60s, darks 5x60s. Stacking using AstroPixelProcessor (APP) and cropping and final editing with CS4 (Tiff16 to Jpeg). 

Solar Storms : Astronomy Online from American National Museum of History

On line lecture on Solar Storms : October 2nd at 7 PM Brussels time

Join Carter Emmart, the Museum’s director of astrovisualization, and Leila Mays, deputy director of the Community Coordinated Modeling Center at NASA Goddard, to explore how scientists protect astronauts from space weather and why our Sun’s dynamic activity affects human space travel. Bring your questions for our presenters and for Kathryn Whitman and Phil Quinn of NASA Johnson Space Center's Space Radiation Analysis Group (SRAG), and Jon Linker of Predictive Science, Inc., who will be answering your questions live in the chat.

My pictures published in magazine Heelal

I'm proud that two of my pictures : the noctilucent clouds storm of July 5 and Comet Neowise C/2020 F3 are both published in magazine Heelal (Heelal edition september 2020 and Heelal edition oktober 2020)

Gold Messier Certificate

Today I received my Gold Messier Certificate. The certificate was provided by the VVS (Janos Barabas) as a result  of completing the observation of all 110 Messier objects. 

Andromeda Galaxy Complex M31 M32 M110 NGC206

My 4 sessions of the Andromeda Galaxy M31 with M32, M110 and NGC206 are all stacked using APP - AstroPixelProcessor. A total of 254 pictures are used resulting in a time exposure of 3h32m. 

Final editing using CS4.

Setting : Nikon D7500 with TLAPO80/480 f/6. Nikon Raw (Nef) was used by APP to stack the pictures. 

Govert Schilling Live via Youtube

 

Lecture by Govert Schilling is now live via Youtube. 

Forming Sunspot in CaII K, White and Solar Continuum

A combination of white light (ND3.8), Solar Continuum and CaIIK Line. The forming sunspot is clearly visible on all three pictures.