Monday, August 12, 2019

Saturn

Again a clear sky but seeing is moderate; later, at midnight, seeing is very bad. Picture taken with TAL200K, ASI224MC, Barlow x2 and ADC. Exposure time was 3 minutes. Stacking with AutoStakkert and final editing in CS4.


Sunday, August 11, 2019

Backyard StarTrail

Backyard Startrail with Nikon D7500 and Tamron lens 10-24mm f/3.5. Setting f/3.5 10mm, exposuere 322x30s and ISO1250. Startrail with Startrails v2.3.


Planetary Nebula NGC7094


The very faint planetary nebula NGC7094 is located in Pegasus. Total exposure time was 17,5 minutes with Nikon D7500 and TAL200K f/8.5. Pictures are converted to DNG and stacking using DeepSkyStacker. Final editing with CS4.


Globular Cluster Messier M15


Globular Cluster Messier M15 in constellation Pegasus is estimated 12billion years old and located at a distance of about 33.000 light years from Earth.
The picture is the result of stacking 15 pictures each 30s exposure, ISO6400 with TAL200K f/8.5 and Nikon D7500. Raw photo's are converted into DNG format and stacking is done using DeepSkyStacker and final editing in CS4.


Jupiter with GRS

Clear sky but very poor seeing. The Great Red Spot (GRS) was central around 22h. I used my TAL200K, ASI224MC with barlow x2 and ADC. Sharpcap was used as capture tool and pictures are stacked using AutoStackert. Final editing in CS4.


Saturday, August 10, 2019

Yearbook Royal Observatory Of Belgium

The Royal Observatory of Belgium publishes annualy a Yearbook. This is a must have for all amateur astronomers. The yearbook provides all kind of astronomical information mostly specific for Belgium. All recent editions are avaible in PDF format. See this link for the yearbooks.


My NLC picture in magazine Heelal


My pictures of  the NLC outbreak during the night of June 21 is published in the magazine "Heelal - Jaargang 64, number 8, August 2019.