Results from the second night at the IAS observatory on the Gamsberg plateau with the 28 inch Newtonian “Wolf-Peter-Hartmann-Teleskop”, adding to my growing catalog of cometary globules.
Alas, sky flats at dusk didn’t work well, so some of the dust struture seen here may be artefacts of the calibration and gradient removal.
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First result from this year’s trip to Namibia, including two nights at the IAS observatory on the Gamsberg plateau using the mighty 28 inch Newtonian telescope for astrophotography. I came across this field of view when observing the supernova SN 2026cff in NGC 3660 with the IAS remote telescope and noticed the near-by, peculiar Hoag-type galaxy PGC1000714 with its ring structure.
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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
Trotz widriger Wetterbedingungen waren die sechs Nächte auf dem Gamsberg der Höhepunkt der Namibia-Reise, ein wenig “Star Party” Feeling auf 2340 m, die nächste Farm zwei Stunden entfernt, bei schwierigster Auf- und Abfahrt. Alle Bilder hier im Album Gamsberg.
Despite the cold and rainy weather, the six nights on the Gamsberg were the climax of our Namibia tour in 2018, a bit of “star party” feeling on 2340 m, two hours to the next farm, via a most difficult pad. All images here in the corresponding Gamsberg album.
New processing of the Gamsberg 2018 data for Jupiter and Saturn, taken with the mighty “70er” at the IAS Observatory Gamsberg, Namibia.
Continue readingDriving Namibia 2018 from Martin Junius on Vimeo.
A tour of the challenging pads at Fish River Canyon (Fish River Lodge tour), Gamsberg (IAS Observatory), and Groot Gamsberg Wildlife Sanctuary (Rhino tracking tour).
Also posted to Youtube.
Namib – View from Sossus Dune Lodge #2
Mittlerweile sind auch die Namibia-Bilder von 2014, 2015, 2016 hier in der Galerie verfügbar:
Photography > Nambia > Namibia 2014
Photography > Nambia > Namibia 2015
Photography > Nambia > Namibia 2016
Photography > Nambia > Rastplätze in Namibia
Night in Namibia from Martin Junius on Vimeo.
Neues Zeitraffervideo / new time-lapse video.
Special thanks to: Egbert, Susanne, Michael, Wolf, Irene, Ladi, Dennis, Karl, Waltraud, Friedhelm
Locations: Fish River Canyon, Quiver Tree Forest near Keetmanshoop, IAS Observatory Gamsberg, IAS Observatory Hakos and Hakos Astrofarm, Namibia
Trail of the Five Planets – Jul 2018 – Annotated
