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Astrophotography Galaxy

Astrophoto: Markarian’s Chain – 06/21

At CS number 16 started something completely new. I shot with a piggyback camera. This evening was a horrortrip, at least i came out with something to show.

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Astrophotography Open Cluster

Astrophoto: Beehive Cluster – Messier 44 – 04/21

Day 15 with my Vixen ed80sf.
The open cluster Messier 44. An object which was several times the object at the end of a photo session of other objects to finalize the evening. I used data from 3 evenings for the final astrophoto.

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Astrophotography Galaxy

Astrophoto: Pinwheel Galaxy – Messier 101 – 04/21

The Pinwheel Galaxy – One of the famous Galaxies for Spring evenings. I had to ignore moon to practise more in astrophotography.

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Astrophotography Galaxy

Astrophoto: Bode’s Galaxy and Cigar Galaxy – Messier 81 and Messier 82 – 04/21

Bode’s and Cigar Galaxy, two well known Galaxies on the spring sky. I really like the result for only 30 minutes total exposure.

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Astrophotography

My first dithering!

As a beginner in astrophotography there comes the day, when you stumble on dithering. And it is worth using it.

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Astrophotography

About me

About me and my Astrophoto-Blog: My name is Thomas Hanrath, I live in Koblenz, Germany. As most other people taking astrophotos today, i had a small telescope when i was a child. But all i really observed was Moon and Sun (with a sun-filter ofcourse). How Astrophotography started In 2020 the comet Neowise brought new […]

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Astrophotography Emission Nebula

Astrophoto: Monkey Head Nebula – Sharpless 252 – 03/21

At the end of March, the famous Monkey Head Nebula was my target. I took the photos from my backyard and stumbled over a lot of problems i had to solve and fix them in PixInsight.

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Astrophotography Emission Nebula Open Cluster

Astrophoto: Rosette Nebula – Caldwell 49 -03/21

2023 reprocessed picture of Caldwell 49, the Rosette Nebula, based on the data from 2021.

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Astrophotography Open Cluster Reflection Nebula

Astrophoto: Pleiades – Messier 45 – 03/21

Reprocessing is worth it. I like the new result.

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Astrophotography Galaxy

Astrophoto: Triangulum Galaxy – Messier 33 – 02/21

Some of my early collected light from 2021. Only 1h collected light is just not enough. Reprocessed in 2023. I like the stars much more, the rest is a question of masking and curves.

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