The partial solar eclipse of 25 Oct 2022 over Cologne-Dellbrück, Germany. Partly cloudy skies provided a natural ND filter for these images. Alas, a complete cloud cover obscured maximum eclipse at 12:07 CEST with a magnitude of 0.33.
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And yet another image from April/May at the IAS Observatory Hakos, Namibia. NGC 3621 is a field galaxy, i.e. lonely galaxy ;-), in the constellation of Hydra.
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Another image from April at the IAS Observatory Hakos, Namibia. Designated RCW 32 or Gum 15, an emission nebula in the constellation Vela.
Meanwhile I started using PixInsight’s new Weighted Batch PreProcessor (WBPP), with the option to split the R, G, B channels in the Debayer process and align / integrate the channels separately. This really improves image quality with OSC and using WBPP takes over the otherwise tedious manual process.
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More stuff from April at the IAS observatory, Namibia.
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Continue readingA new version of the time-lapse video, now including the latest sequences from August.
Already done in 2019, here comes another shot at NGC 2997, a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy in Antlia. Only 1 hour of total exposure time due to many technical problems with the 20″ Cassegrain.
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More southern sky galaxies from the trip to Hakos, Namibia in April/May 2022, the Meathook Galaxy NGC 2442 and the elliptical galaxy NGC 2434 plus some smaller PGCs.
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A quick capture during a clear mid summer night. An “advantage” of the light polution here: even so astronomical twilight isn’t reached, the sky brightness is for approx. 3 hours in the range of SQM 19.5 to 19.9. SQM 20.0 is the maximum I measured in my backyard in spring 2020 with the excellent “lock-down” skies.
Hopefully a break in the currently cloudy and rainy weather for some additional O3 und S2 data during the next days before the moon returns.
Continue readingA 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.
Finally, something fresh from Namibia, captured on-site. Details at Astrobin.
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