A small set of nightscape image from Hakos and Gamsberg, Namibia. Taken from the time-lapse series shot April and August 2022, see also the Night in Namibia 2022 video.
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Gamsberg Drive
Back on the Gamsberg, Namibia after a long CoViD hiatus. After the heavy rain season in spring 2022, the access pad (gravel road going up the mountain) was severely damaged and not passable for even a 4WD. During summer Nic of adjacent Farm Weener and his workers did a superb job in repairing the pad. So in August we went up …
The video shows uphill and downhill on the challenging access pad.
If you want to get a glimpse of the night sky on top of Gamsberg, have a look at my latest astro time-lapse video.
Special thanks to:
Nic for getting us safely up and down,
Sunja, Michael, Irene, Thomas, Sigi, Günter, and Toni
Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V.
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
An mj’s photography production, Copyright © 2022 Martin Junius
Music “Descent Part 4“, Copyright © 2022 Martin Junius
Night in Namibia 2022 Reloaded
A new version of the time-lapse video, now including the latest sequences from August.
Night in Namibia 2022
A new night sky time-lapse video from Namibia April/May 2022 is ready and posted to Youtube. Full HD, due to the size limitation not available at Vimeo. Enjoy!
For the gear heads: I switched from Canon EOS to Sony Alpha for the night sky time-lapses. The combination A7 III + FE 14 mm F1.8 GM is really a game changer for me.
IC 2118 – Witch Head Nebula
A two panel mosaic of the Witch Head Nebula, with Rigel to the right outside the field giving his very best to produce some light streaks.
More details at Astrobin.
Continue readingNGC 104 – Globular Cluster
A true southern skies object, NGC 104 or 47 Tucanae, appears to be in the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, even though the SMC is farther away.
All details at Astrobin.
Continue readingC/2021 A1 Leonard at Perihel
Comet Leonard at Perihel (already quite a bit darker) and one day before.
All details here (02 Jan) and here (03 Jan) at Astrobin.
Continue readingC/2021 A1 Leonard – Animation
Clouds/haze around dusk and limited transparency, but Leonard was bright enough to deliver approx. half an hour of usable data for this animation of the movements within the comet’s tail (22 RGB frames).
Also posted to my YouTube channel (new version).
Continue readingC/2021 A1 Leonard – Comet in Microscopium
More spectacular day by day (or rather night by night), a shot one week later at comet Leonard.
All details at Astrobin.
Continue readingC/2021 A1 Leonard – Comet in Sagittarius
The “Christmas star” from southern skies. ;-)
Full details at Astrobin, Image of the Day on 30 Dec 2021!
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