- Index page with recent astrophotos
- Leeuwenboschfontein weekend starparty 2016 Mar 4-6
- Events observed by me from 2003 latest: Mercury transit 2016 May 9
- Page with sky pictures with the EOS 6
- Lunar and planetary images and phenomenas
- Page with sky pictures with the EOS 40 from Bali jan 2009, feb 2010 and 2012
- Page with sky pictures from La Palma Jan / Feb 2011
- Total lunar eclipse of 2011 Jun 15
- Solar eclipse visible as deep partial in Indonesia on 2009 Jan 26
- Old 1973 Polarex 80mm spotting scope refurbishment.
- New 2015 Robtics ED110 refractor
- Using a telephoto lens as a small handheld telescope
- Nice sky pictures taken from a plane in full flight
- How to see stars in the daytime ?
- Old astrophotos from 1980-1990s
- How I learned Astronomy
- Astronomik CLS filter test
- Simple Eclipse calculations
Sky images taken with the EOS 40 and from April 2012 EOS 7On 2012 July 22 I saw Venus, Jupiter and Aldebaran in early morining so I took a shot of 1.5 second throught the window. The total lunar eclipse of 2011 Dec 10 was only partially visible at moonrise. I took some pictures every minute one at 16:00 UTC. The biggest problem I have to cope with in Holland are the orange skies, as the Netherlands is the country with the most illuminated sky of the world. The orange glow is due to the sodium lamps used for street lighting, but, even worse, upward lighting for lighting buildings of which more light does not reach the building at all.All images are shot in RAW (5184x3456) or sRAW (2592x1728) on the EOS 7 and processed by Photoshop CS4 and CS5 and the stacked ones by the freeware Deep sky stacker before using photoshop. Some images have a reddish center which is due to the vignetting caused by full aperture. I was unable to remove this by photoshop, even by vignetting correction. In the past (1988-1997) I also did a lot with astrophotos, for picures see here.
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On 2013 March 13/14 I saw the comet PANSTARRS and a nice crescent Moon in the evening sky. I used the Canon 70-300mm f/5.6L telephoto zoom lens which is excellent for such photos. |
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Time lapse of 192 images of the southern sky (Scorpius, Centaurus, Crux) from Sanur, Bali each 15 seconds a 12 seconds exposure. Click to play here If it does not show up your browser does not support H.264 videos. View the clip here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Time lapse of 80 images each 30 seconds a 12 seconds exposure. Click to play here If it does not show up your browser does not support H.264 videos. View the clip here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Time lapse of 180 images each 30 seconds a 15 seconds exposure in a half moon night (2012 Jan 2). Click to play here If it does not show up your browser does not support H.264 videos. View the clip here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Older pictures taken in 2008-2009The first five pictures are teken on the night of Christmas day 2008 when it was very clear and I took some pictures of the sky in the east which was relatively dark. I had no telescope with me, just the camera and tripod, so I was bound to untracked expossures which limits exposure times to 8 sec with the Canon EF 85mm 1.8. The location (the cross in the center of the map) I took the images was at the edge of the city of Nijmegen (Netherlands). The rest is taken in September and August 2008 from a more illuminated location. See here for some high ISO samples in general photography. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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