My personal first test run with the VdS remote telescope, also based at Hakos, Namibia. A well known target deep in the southern skies here, the 47 Tucanae globular cluster, near the Small Magellanic Cloud, also known as NGC 104.
More details at Astrobin.
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New data from the IAS remote telescope, a lesser known object, the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.
Details at Astrobin (new revision).
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Fortsetzung der kleinen, 2015 gestarteten Serie. Alle Bilder hier in der Galerie.
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Mehr unsortierte Eindrücke der fotografischen Streifzüge.
Unsortierte Eindrücke der fotografischen Streifzüge.
Another open cluster of the southern skies … and a lot of cosmic “Schmodder” ;-)
All details at Astrobin, see also Herbert Walter’s Astrobin IOTD.
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Quite a bit more colorful nebulosity in this image of NGC 2547, an open cluster in Vela. Took me while to finalize the image processing, the data is back from February 2023, using the IAS remote telescope at Hakos.
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Back to the roots. After all the data acquired under pristine Namibian skies, both locally and remotely, I managed to capture the Coathanger Asterism in my backyard. A few days after summer solstice, when astronomical dusk isn’t reached during the night.
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From the archives: Images from an unsually cold and snowy winter, December 2010 in Cologne, now in the gallery here.
Aus dem Archiv: Bilder eines ungewöhnlich kalten und verschneiten Winters, Dezember 2010 in Köln, jetzt hier in der Galerie.