May 23, 2004 / 17:30 - 18:20 UT
Farm Okumitundo, Namibia
Tools: Astro-Physics 0.74 Photo- and Visual Reducer
Medium: SBIG STL 11000XM with SBIG RGB filterset
Exposure Time(s): L: 32x 20 seconds (2x2 binning) RGB: 12x 20 seconds (3x3 binning) each color
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Guiding: Self-guiding on a star
Processing Info: MaxIm DL, PhotoShop
Notes: Dark and flatframe-corrected
Centaurus A Radio Galaxy in Centaurus
May 21, 2004 / 20:40 - 1:50 UT
Farm Okumitundo, Namibia
RA: 13h : 25.5m
Declination: -43° : 01'
Distance: 15.0 Mly
Visual Brightness: 7.0 (mag)
Apparent Dimension: 18' x 14'
Tools: 2.7" Prime Focus Field Flattener
Medium: SBIG STL 11000XM with SBIG RGB filterset
Exposure Time(s): L: 10x 10 minutes (1x1 binning) RGB: 6x 10 minutes (2x2 binning) each color
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Guiding: Self-guiding
Processing Details: MaxIm DL,PhotoShop
Notes: Dark and flatframe-corrected
Omega Centauri Globular Cluster
May 16, 2004 / 21:45 - 23:40 UT
Farm Okumitundo, Namibia
RA: 13h : 26.8m
Declination: -47° : 29'
Distance: 16.0 kly
Visual Brightness: 3.68 (mag)
Apparent Dimension: 36'
Tools: 2.7" Prime Focus Field Flattener
Medium: SBIG STL 11000XM with SBIG RGB filterset
Exposure Time(s): L: 9x 200 seconds (1x1 binning) RGB 2x 400 seconds (1x1 binning) each color
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Guiding: Self-guiding
Processing Info: MaxIm DL, PhotoShop
Notes: Dark and flatframe-corrected
June 8, 2004 / 11:05:48 UT and 11:06:20 UT
Stuttgart, Germany
Tools: Baader-Planetarium Herschel Wedge with grey filters 1000x, 64x and 8x Astro-Physics 2x Barlow
Detector: SBIG STL 11000XM with SBIG RGB filterset
Exposure Times: 0.05 seconds and1 second. Both with red filter in place.
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Processing Info: MaxIm DL, PhotoShop Darkframe-corrected
Notes: The atmosphere of Venus is visible. I combined two frames to show the surface of the sun as well as the Venus atmoshpere.
Apr 27, 2004 / 19:02 UT
Stuttgart, Germany
Tools: Astro-Physics 2x Barlow
Detector: Philips ToUCam 740K WebCam
Exposure Time(s): 1 AVI-File: 100 seconds, 10 frames per second Exposure time: 1/25 seconds 300 selected and averaged with RegiStax 2
Mount:Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Guiding: no
Processing Info: RegiStax, AIP, PhotoShop
Notes: Reasonable seeing conditions. Many thanks to Roland Kern for his excellent help during image processing.
Sculptor Galaxy
Sep 2, 2003 / 6:50 - 9:20 UT
Astrofarm, Vicuņa, Chile
RA: 00h : 47.6m
Declination: -25° : 17'
Distance: 10.0 Mly
Visual Brightness: 7.1 (mag)
Apparent Dimension: 25' x 7'
Medium: SBIG ST-2000XM with CFW-8A
Exposure Time(s): L: 5x 15 minutes (1x1 binning) RGB: 5x 5 minutes (2x2 binning) each color
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 GTO
Guiding: Self-guiding
Processing Info: MaxIm DL, PhotoShop Dark- and flatframe-corrected
Notes: A faint trail was visible in the top center of the image. It is caused by the asteroid 1999 TB260 (about 17 mag).
Feb 27, 2003 / 01:00 - 03:45 UT
Stuttgart, Germany
RA (approx): 11h : 19m
Declination: +13° : 00'
Tools: Astro-Physics 0.74 Photo- and Visual Reducer
Medium: SBIG ST-2000XM with CFW-8A
Exposure Time(s): L: 2x 15 minutes and 1x 30 minutes (1x1 binning) RGB: 2x 15 minutes (2x2 binning) each color
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Guiding: SBIG ST-4
Processing Info: AstroArt, PhotoShop
Notes: Dark and flatframe-corrected
Horsehead-Nebula
Jan 8, 2003, 22:15 - 23:00 UT
Stuttgart, Germany
RA: 5h : 41.0m
Declination: -2° : 24'
Apparent Dimension: 60'
Tools: Astronomiks Halpha filter 15nm
Detector: SBIG ST-2000XM
Exposure Time(s): 45 minutes
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Guiding: SBIG ST-4
Processing Info: AstroArt, PhotoShop
Notes: Dark- and flatframe-corrected Due to clouds moving in no more/longer exposures were possible
The Great Orion Nebula
Jan 12, 2003 / from 00:05 UT on
Hungen, Germany
RA: 05h : 35.4m
Declination: -05° : 27'
Distance: 1.6 kly
Visual Brightness: 4.0 (mag)
Apparent Dimension: 85' x 60'
Medium: SBIG ST-2000XM with CFW-8A
Exposure Time(s): L(Halpha)RGB L=1x 15 minutes (with Astronomiks Halpha filter, 15nm) RGB=1x 4 minutes each
Mount: Astro-Physics 400 CNC
Guiding: SBIG ST-4
Processing Info: AstroArt, PhotoShop
in Cassiopeia
Dec 23, 2003 / 21:50 - 24:00 UT
Stuttgart, Germany
RA: 01h : 33.2m
Declination: +60° : 42'
Distance: 8.5 kly
Visual Brightness: 7.4 (mag)
Apparent Dimension: 6'
Detector: SBIG ST-2000XM with CFW-8A
Exposure Time(s): L 9x180 sec., B 4x300 sec., G 5x300 sec., R 8x300 sec.
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Guiding: Self-guiding
Processing Info: RGB composite with AstroArt 2.0 MaxIm DL, PhotoShop Dark- and flatframe-corrected
Notes: Cross to produce diffraction spikes on brighter stars
May 23, 2004 / 0:00 UT
Farm Okumitundo, Namibia
RA: 12h : 15.1m
Declination: -58° : 44'
Detector: Kodak Ektachrome E200 Prof. 6x6 cm
Exposure Time(s): 30 minutes
Moun: Fixed mounted on a photo tripod
Processing Info: PhotoShop
Notes: I focussed this image progressive. I started with a totally defocussed setting. During the exposure, I changed the focus every 40 seconds in 'infinity' -direction. Before the end of this sequence I covered the lens for two minutes before I let the light pass again for about 10 seconds. This last exposure time made the sharp star at the end of each trail. This technique shows the constellation as well as the star colors.
May 21, 2004 / 16:37 UT
Farm Okumitundo, Namibia
Tools: 2.7" Prime Focus Field Flattener
Detector: SBIG STL 11000XM with SBIG RGB filterset
Exposure Time(s): Ha: 0.01 second (1x1 binning) H-alpha filter only for light reduction RGB: 3x 0.01 seconds (1x1 binning) each color
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 QMD
Processing Info: MaxIm DL, PhotoShop
Notes: Dark and flatframe-corrected
Scorpius and Saggitarius region
Aug 24, 2003 / 1:00 - 1:45 UT
Chile, near Vicuņa
Optics: Hasselblad/Carl Zeiss Biogon 4.5/38mm
Detector: Kodachrome E200 Prof. 6x6cm
Exposure Time(s): 45 minutes
Mount: Astro-Physics 900 GTO
Guiding: no
Processing Info: PhotoShop
Notes: A view into the heart of our galaxy. Antares in Scorpius is left of the center. Visit Stefan Seip's website and click on the 'Constellations' link. (Due to his site's structure, it can't be directly linked) Click on the 'Milkyway, SCO and SGR region' link, then click 'Enlarge' to see a map of the constellations and a red dot indicating the center of the galaxis as a mouse-over effect.