The classic southern sky object, the Tarantula Nebula and surrounding nebulosity.
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Remote Moon
Some “moon shots” with the IAS remote telescope at Hakos, Namibia.
Continue readingNGC 300 – Galaxy in Sculptor
A new image from the IAS remote telescope, the NGC 300 galaxy in Sculptor.
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Continue readingMerry Christmas
Obwohl ich dieses Video schon vor zwei Jahren auf Vimeo gepostet hatte, ist es noch nicht in meinen YouTube-Kanal und hier ins Blog vorgedrungen. Im Rückblick sehr surreal, die Weihnachtszeit im ersten Pandemiejahr.
Euch allen Frohe Weihnachten und einen Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr!
Already posted to Vimeo two years ago, this video never made it into my YouTube channel and the blog here. Very surrealistic, Christmas time back then in 2020.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to y’all!
NGC 55 – Galaxy in Sculptor
Sort of first light for the new IAS remote telescope at Hakos, Namibia.
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Continue readingGamsberg 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
The Dragons of Ara
Final installment of the OSC data from April/May, taken at the IAS Observatory Hakos, Namibia. Somewhat well-known objects in the southern sky, NGC 6188 and 6193, imaged as a two panel mosaic.
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Continue readingPartly Cloudy Partial Eclipse
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.
Continue readingNGC 3621 – Field Galaxy in Hydra
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.
All details at Astrobin.
Continue readingRCW 32 – Gum 15
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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