Christian has a new toy, the Olympus E-M10 system camera. In the Zagersdorf wind park area he produced a nice widefield polaris startrail image. And poor Viktor had to perform as guinea pig for testingContinue reading
New star trail image: Polaris startrails and the wayside shrine
Christian took a 15 minutes exposure of Polaris startrails with with a Christian wayside shrine at the outskirsts of Wulkaprodersdorf. continue to startrail image →
Deep sky image: IC 1805, the heart nebula in Hα :
Deep sky observing on a 1700 meters high mountain without being disturbed from direct street lamp stray light and ground fog. A team of 4 amateur astronomers enjoyed views of the summer milky way andContinue reading
Deep sky image: IC 1848, the Soul Nebula in Hα
IC 1848 is a huge emission nebula in Cassiopeia.is emission nebulae in Cassiopeia. Several small open clusters are embedded in the nebula: CR 34, 632, and 634 (in the head) and IC1848 (in the body).Continue reading
Deep sky image of Nov 2013: Messier 45, the Pleiades in Taurus
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters (Messier 45) is an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 millionContinue reading
Deep sky image of August 2013: B361, IC1369, PK89-0.1 and some LDNs in Cygnus
This interesting region full of dark nebulae is situated in Cygnus, to the northeast of NGC 7000, the North American Nebula. The exposure time was about 4 hours using a Takahashi FSQ106ED refractor @ f/5Continue reading