These picture's where taken in a period of exeptional clear weather in Holland. To make these pictures I used several frames taken with the Philips SPC900 webcam. In Photoshop these frames where combined to "the bigger picture". Click on the individual pictures to see the full format version.
For this picture I tried to use a longer exposuretime for the individual frames. The majority of the frames have an exposuretime of approx. 1 minute on ISO 1600. The total exposure time is almost one hour!
Up till now I wasn't able to make a decent picture of a globular cluster. Last night I amed the telescope at The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. This picture consists of 50 frames. The exposure time is 30 seconds at 1600 ISO. I stacked the frames with DeepSkyStacker and touched it up a little with Photoshop.
This is a picture of the moon taken with the Canon 350D. I used 50 JPEG pictures (frames) and stacked them with Registax. With Photoshop I touched up the photo a little. This one of the finest results yet.
Last month I was able to test my new Barlow. And up till now I'm very pleased with it. In this photo's you see the moon (crater Clavius) and Saturn. The picture of Saturn could be a bit sharper though but on the night the photo was taken the seeing was pretty bad.
This is the latest moon image, taken on januari 16th 2008. I used a Philips SPC900 webcam. From the 1200 frames taken I used 800.
Last night was very clear. A good moment to capture the M42. This birthplace for stars can be found in the constelation of Orion. From my observatory, the nebulae bearly rises above the tree tops. So its a matter of good timing to get a good shot. In this picture I used 40 frames of 30 seconds each. The camera was set to ISO 1600. I used Deepskystacker to stack the frames, and used Photoshop and Nebulosity to finalse it.
This is the large file of NGC 891. With the site messier45.com I was able to identify 14 objects on this photo. All of them are galaxies.
This is a picture of comet Holmes, made on December 1st 2007. Since my last post the comet has grown in size considerlaby. For this picture I used 40 frames of 30 seconds on ISO 1600.
This is the first attempt to make a picture with longer exposure time. For this picture I used 60 frames of 30 seconds. A total exposure time of 30 minutes! These frames where stacked with deepskystacker. Photoshop was used to enhance the picture of M33. This galaxy is a member of the local group.
After reading the techniques used bij Jerry Lodriguss I reprecessed mij picture of M8 - The Lagoonnebulae. I am happy with the latest results.
These two pictures are taken on august the 5th. In the early morning hours the sky was very clear and there wasn't much seeing. And als the collimation of the scope wasn't that bad. So the circumstances were good to make sharp pictures. These photo's of the moon (last quarter) are the sharpest yet. For the photo of the crater Copernicus, I used 3 frames that are combined in photoshop.
I have been to France for a short holiday. Clear and very dark skies!!! These photo's are my latest results.
This is the new template that I will use for future Photographs. Besides the actual photo it will also show all the technical data.
For this photo of the moon I took 2 images: one with a "normal exposure time (1/60 seconds), and one with a longer exposure time (1 second). These pictures where combined to one with photoshop. This will give a total view of the moon.
This is a mosaic of 5 pictures that I took with the 8" telescope and the Philips Vesta Pro webcam. I used a shutter speed of 1/30 second and took aprox. 600 images. The resulting photo's where stitched together with Photoshop. Click on the image to see "the big picture"...
While testing my new laptop I resampled my picture of M51 (Canes Venatici). I also detected that two other little galaxy's are visible: IC 4263 (Mvis 15,7) and NGC 5169 (Mvis 14.4). These galaxy's are found at the right hand corner, below the middle. Can you find them? Never before I photographed objects this dimm.
