
After a long hiatus from the group I processed the recent C088 data posted to DSLR AIP. Sh2-113 and Sh2-114, very faint H-alpha emission nebulae in Cygnus with some surrounding OIII streaks.
Continue readingAfter a long hiatus from the group I processed the recent C088 data posted to DSLR AIP. Sh2-113 and Sh2-114, very faint H-alpha emission nebulae in Cygnus with some surrounding OIII streaks.
Continue readingAus dem Archiv: ein paar Eindrücke zwischendrin von einer Geschäftsreise nach Berlin, auch schon wieder 15 Jahre her.
From the archive: some in-between impressions from a business trip to Berlin in 2009.
Alle Bilder / all images: Deutschland > Berlin 2009
Like a dolphin ahead of the red flood. Nick-named “Flipper” by the IAS remote team, this is the Cometary Globule CG1 in the outskirt of the Gum Nebula. [1] [2]
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Continue readingCompleting the Grus Quartet with the spiral galaxy NGC 7552. Last data from September at IAS Observatory, Hakos, Namibia.
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Continue readingFrom the archives: impressions from some idle hours during a business trip to London in June 2010, not yet published here.
From the archive: refurbished article on the Scotland 2010 (Edinburgh and Islay) journey (German) and extended Scotland 2010 album in the gallery.
Continue readingOnly three of the quartet, NGC 7522 is a bit further out, but NGC 7599, 7590, and 7582 just barely fit the frame. Data from September at IAS Observatory, Hakos, Namibia.
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Continue readingAnother galaxy from the September 2023 data, NGC 7424 in Grus.
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Continue readingImage data from 18 Sep 2023, taken on-site at the IAS Hakos Observatory, Namibia. The spiral galaxy NGC 1097 in Fornax with a back then new type II supernova 2023rev, discovered on 08 Sep 2023. So only 10 days old in this image (see marker), or 45 million years, depending on the perspective.
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Continue readingMy 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.
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