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These pages are dedicated to my main hobby: amateur astronomy.
I observe and photograph the universe from my private backyard observatory from a reasonably dark site in the Netherlands.
clearsky clock - prediction of local cloudcover, seeing and transparancy
sample images (more photos)
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April 14, 2012, M81 in Ursa Major. First light with the new 8RC/f8 + Atik 383L + autoguider combination.
8x600s, 2x2 binning. |
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| November 27, 2011, moon and venus. Canon 350D, 200mm telelens, 0.07s exposure, 1600 ISO. |
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| October 15, 2011, crescent nebula (NGC6888) in Cygnus, WO Z80, ATK 16HRC, 10x10min Ha, 4x10min RGB, autoguided. |
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| March 8, 2011, C39 "eskimo" nebula. 10" LX200 and ATK 16HRC 11x1 minute exposure. |
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| January 16, 2011, Orion Nebula (m42). Stack of 25 images, total exposure time 70 minutes (12x300s, 13x45s). William Optics Z80, ATK 16HRC (2x2 binning)+Ha filter, autoguided. |
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