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The motion of the stars… 18 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
Recently I found that the images taken for the Digitized Sky Survey around 1990 are about the same image scale as the images I take now with my TEC-140. So I decided to make a comparison between an i...
Nova Delphinus 2013 before and after 17 Aug 2013 | 02:51 am
Here an animation is shown of the same area before and after the nova:
Nova Delphinus 2013 16 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
A new nova was discovered in the constellation of Delphinus on August 14 18:00 UT. I was able to start imaging within 5 hours of the discovery and gather some nice brightness measurements. Here my lat...
Special item in RTL TV show EditieNL about astrophotography (Dutch) 15 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
Today there was an item on RTL television about astrophotography and my nomination for the Astrophotographer of the year 2013 competition. It’s in Dutch: [There is a video that cannot be displayed i...
Perseids 2013 13 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
Last night we went with our astronomical society into the Dutch polders to look if we could see some Perseids. Luckily the clouds went away for a few hours and I have been able to see some beautiful P...
Astroparty Halley Observatory 2nd August 2013 7 Aug 2013 | 12:08 am
Here are some images taken by Twan Beckers from the astroparty at Halley observatory in Heesch.
NGC7331 / Stephan’s Quintet 5 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
NGC 7331 (in the lower left of the image) is a galaxy similar to our own galaxy in the constellation Pegasus at a distance of about 50 million lightyears. It was discovered in 1784 by William Herschel...
Weak, weaker, weakest: Kronberger 61 3 Aug 2013 | 12:59 am
This was my most elusive target until now. Kronberger 61 is a planetary nebula only discovered in 2011 by an amateur astronomer while searching through the kepler satellite imagery. This nebula has a...
The power of astrodon TrueRGB filters 26 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
Last night I had the opportunity to put my new Astrodon TrueRGB gen2 filters up to the test. I have been imaging Barnard 344 and wanted to get some RGB data for this. Yesterday there was a 94% moon un...
Barnard 344 and surroundings in HaRGB and Hubble Palette 25 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm
Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula. Barnard 344 is located on the bottom of the image. This region is very rich...
