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Transit of Mercury

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Transit of Mercury 09 May 2016 from Martin Junius on Vimeo.

Somewhat cloudy, especially towards the end, but most of the transit of Mercury was clearly visible from Brück, Cologne, Germany.

Einige Wolken, besonders zum Ende hin, aber der Großteil der Merkurtransits konnte in Brück, Köln beobachtet werden.

The time-lapse video is available on / das Zeitraffervideo gibt’s auf: Facebook, Vimeo, Youtube.

Equipment:

  • Canon 5D Mark II, Televue Powermate 2x, William Optics FT 81 FD f/5.9 478mm, Baader filter, Skywatcher AZ EQ6 GT
  • Canon 5D Mark III, EF 8-15 f/4 L Fisheye @ 14mm
  • GoPro Hero4 Silver
  • 2x ISR Twin1 timer

Location: near Friedhof Brück, Cologne, Germany
50°55’45” N 7°4’43” E

Blurb PDF Upload

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Namibia 2015 - IAS Edition

Namibia 2015 – IAS Edition

FINALLY! ;-) It seems that I’ve solved my problems with Scribus PDF/X-3 photobooks failing the preflight check when uploading them to Blurb. The photobook above used to be rejected during excessive tests a couple weeks ago.

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User Registration

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Wegen der sehr stark gestiegenen Zahl der Spam-Anmeldungen musste ich leider die Möglichkeit zur Registrierung als neuer User abgeschalten. Bei Bedarf bitte unter Kontakt melden.

Sorry, due to the high volume of spam registrations I had to disable that everyone could register as a new user. Feel free to contact me here for user registration or anything else.

 

Deep Sky 2015

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NGC 1499 - California Nebula

NGC 1499 – California Nebula

Die einigermaßen gelungenen (Deep Sky) Astrofotos aus diesem Jahr finden sich in dem Google Fotos Album “Deep Sky 2015”. Aufnahmeorte: Köln-Dellbrück; Dr.-Heinrich-Menke-Park, Eifel; Internationale Amateursternwarte, Hakos, Namibia.

Somewhat decent (deep sky) astrophotography over the course of this year can be found in the Google Photos album “Deep Sky 2015”. Locations: Dellbrück, Cologne, Germany; Dr.-Heinrich-Menke-Park, Eifel, Germany; IAS Observatory, Hakos, Namibia.

Astrophotography IAS, Hakos 2015

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Trifid Nebula - M20 or NGC 6514

Trifid Nebula – M20 or NGC 6514, 32 x 300s

Southern Pinwheel Galaxy - M83 or NGC 5236

Southern Pinwheel Galaxy – M83 or NGC 5236, 30 x 300s

Omega Centauri - NGC 5139

Omega Centauri – NGC 5139, 24 x 90s

NGC 6726, 6727, 6729, IC 4812 in Corona Australis

NGC 6726, 6727, 6729, IC 4812 in Corona Australis

NGC 6188

NGC 6188, 24 x 300s

IC 4603 and Rho Ophiuchi

IC 4603 and Rho Ophiuchi, 16 x 300s

Centaurus A - NGC 5128

Centaurus A – NGC 5128, 25 x 300s

Cat's Paw Nebula - NGC 6334

Cat’s Paw Nebula – NGC 6334, 16 x 300s

IAS Observatory, Hakos, Namibia
20″ Philipp Keller Cassegrain primary focus @ 1500mm f/3
Liebscher Mount with FS2
Off axis guiding with Lodestar X2, dithering with BackyardEOS and PHD2
Canon 5D Mark II (a) or 5D Mark III (unmod), varying crop
Varying # of subs and exposure, see above, ISO 800 + sky flats/bias, no darks
Image processing DeepSkyStacker, Lightroom, Photoshop