21P Giacobini-Zinner

I'm really satisfied as last night it was finally possible to capture Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner. The comet was located a couple of degrees south of Messier M37 in constellation Auriga. The picture below is a single shot of 30s using Nikon D7500 on TLAPO80/480 f/6; editing done using CS4.

My new learning applied on Messier M8 Lagoon Nebula

Narrowing RGB for both curves as levels

As mentioned in my earlier blog, narrowing individual RGB for both curves as levels in CS4 gives much better results. Using a stacked picture of Messier M8 Lagoon Nebula shows the difference.

Narrowing only RGB for curves

North America Nebula NGC7000 and Pelican Nebula IC5070

Triggered by Astrometry.net I restacked my pictures of the North America Nebula using DeepSkyStacker. Using CS4 I changed my way of editing the stacked result :

1) slightly sharpen the picture using unsharp mask
2) narrowing each Red, Green and Blue curve
3) narrowing each Red, Green and Blue level

The result is much better then my previous editing and the "head" of the pelican is clearly visible.
The pictures are taken with Nikon D7500 on TALAPO 80/480 f/6. A total of 11 pictures, each 30s with different ISO levels.

Astrometry.net

Astrometry.net

If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and it will give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view.

Astrometry.net has built this astrometric calibration service to create correct, standards-compliant astrometric meta-data for every useful astronomical image ever taken, past and future, in any state of archival disarray. They hope this will help organize, annotate and make searchable all the world's astronomical information. (Source Astrometry.net)

Having troubles finding out what I recently photographed my Helios collegue Walter refered towards the website Astrometry.net. After uploading my picture, it took a couple of minutes showing all the details I was looking for. I did some more testing and each time feedback was in short matter of time given of the details of the picture.

You can sign in using your google-account which makes it possible to go back into earlier personal searchs.

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Opendeurdagen Space Pole Ukkel 29 en 30 september 2018

Op 29 en 30 september zijn er de opendeurdagen van Space Pole te Ukkel.

De Pool Ruimte omvat
– de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, inclusief het Planetarium van Brussel
– het Koninklijk Meteorologisch Instituut (KMI)
– het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aeronomie (BIRA)

Milky Way in the Vosges

Some pictures of the Milky Way in the Vosges Region in France. All pictures taken using Nikon D7500 without guiding. Watch for the bright Andromeda Galaxy and Perseus Double Cluster.