Friday, February 19, 2021

M42 Orion and Running Man Nebula OIII and RGB



Orion Nebula M42, M43 and Running Man Nebula NGC1977 captured with Nikon D7500, TLAPO80/480 f/6 : setting OIII filter ISO3200 25x60s and lights ISO800 31x60s.

Cameracontrol with DigiCamControl and stacking using APP. Final editing with CS4 and DeNoise AI.

Orion Nebula M42 in OIII

On Friday, february 12th, temperatures dropped to -7°C and due to wind It felt really cold. I set up my EQAZ6 with TLAPO80/480 f/6 and Nikon D7500.
My first object was Orion Nebula M42 with and without OIII filter. The images with OIII were succesfull but the lights without OIII failed due my "tree".

Below picture : OIII 25x60s ISO3200. Cameracontrol using DigiCamControl. Stacking with APP and final editing with CS4 and DeNoise AI.



On board of Future Mars Mission in 2026


I'm on board of the future Mars Mission in 2026. As a Martian since October 2017 I was part of the Insight and Mars2020 missions. I'm not the only one but together with 4.729.947 of which 7084 from Belgium.



Thursday, February 18, 2021

Mars2020 Perseverance Landing : I'm on Mars now


Together with 2.244.314 other people I watch the landing of Perseverance Live. 

So now I'm on Mars :)  as Perseverance landed on Mars around 22h local time. My boarding pass earlier last year.




The first picture by Perseverance from Mars after landing:






Countdown for Mars :15 hours to Perseverance Landing



Landing of Mars2020 Perseverance will take place 15 hours from now. See this live on NASA TV; starting live broadcasting at 21h local time.


Sunday, February 14, 2021

Saturday, February 13, 2021

Observation at -7°C

Temperatures dropped to -7°C and due to wind It felt really cold. I set up my EQAZ6 with TLAPO80/480 f/6 and Nikon D7500.

My first object was orion nebula M42 with and without OIII filter. The images with OIII were succesfull but the lights without OIII failed due "trees".

The horsehead and flame nebula was observed with and withoud H-alpha. The images with H-alpha were succesfull but only 30min lights were taken in stead of 60.

Below picture : H-alpha 30x90s ISO6400 and lights 25x60s ISO800. Cameracontrol using DigiCamControl. Stacking with APP and final editing with CS4 and DeNoise AI.