Only 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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NGC 7424
Another galaxy from the September 2023 data, NGC 7424 in Grus.
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Continue readingStrom in der Wüste
Mein aktuelles Projekt “Strom” hat mich auch in Namibia nicht ganz losgelassen, hier ein paar Eindrücke entlang der C14 im Namib-Naukluft Nationalpark.
Continue readingNGC 1097 and Supernova 2023rve
Image 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 reading47 Tuc Cluster
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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Continue readingRastplätze in Namibia
Fortsetzung der kleinen, 2015 gestarteten Serie. Alle Bilder hier in der Galerie.
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Gamsberg 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
NGC 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.
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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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