Hoegaarden Astronomy & Photography
Sleeping during a workweek is important! so this image was made unattended – counting on good luck. At the start of the session around midnight the sky was still covered with some high cirrus. At least the street lighting was already switched off.
Image data: Nikon 180mm tele F5.6, no filters, 82x180seconds or about 4 hours of data. It proves the IFN is also visible from light-polluted area’s without the use of filters.
Back in the 90-ties, I had a cartoon running in our local astronomy club magazine. It was called “Pipo the Horrendous” with a modest wink towards world-famous Hagar.
Here’s a translation of a few, have fun ! Please do note that all images on this site are copyright protected.
After a full night of semi-automated imaging the scope stands in the sunlight and is in need of a comb to tidy up all the loose cables. The target was NGC7331 of which 6 hours of fotons were gathered.
A few days later I imaged the same object using the C11 and the F/7 reducer:
