



A small set of nightscape image from Hakos and Gamsberg, Namibia. Taken from the time-lapse series shot April and August 2022, see also the Night in Namibia 2022 video.
A small set of nightscape image from Hakos and Gamsberg, Namibia. Taken from the time-lapse series shot April and August 2022, see also the Night in Namibia 2022 video.
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
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 readingAnother 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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Continue readingMore 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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Continue readingMore 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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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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