My 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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New data from the IAS remote telescope, a lesser known object, the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy.
Details at Astrobin (new revision).
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Another open cluster of the southern skies … and a lot of cosmic “Schmodder” ;-)
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Quite a bit more colorful nebulosity in this image of NGC 2547, an open cluster in Vela. Took me while to finalize the image processing, the data is back from February 2023, using the IAS remote telescope at Hakos.
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Continue readingA new version of the time-lapse video, now including the latest sequences from August.
A 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.
A true southern skies object, the IC 2631 reflection nebula and dark friends in Chamaeleon.
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Some remote data from Hakos before the rain season started. Comet Borelly one day after perihelion (2022-02-01).
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Processing of some data already acquired in Dec 2021.
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