A few shots of the rapeseed fields near the Nordholzer wind farm.
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Cuxhaven Flower Market
Yesterday the 3rd Cuxhaven Flower Market took place in the pedestrian zone. All pictures are taken with the Nikon 1J and the kit lens. The mutilated Hermione can’t be missing either…. And once through the castle garden…
Cuxhaven Grimmershörn
M51 – Whirlpool Galaxy
Last night it was finally clear again. However, the moon was also meanwhile back to 89% and on top of that quite windy. The focal length of my telescope is quite short for such objects. Shown above is a crop which was upsampled afterwards. The (almost) uncropped image looks like this. Recording data […]
Northern Lights II
Unfortunately, nothing could be done the day before yesterday. Everything was 100% overcast and thus no chance of seeing the auroras triggered by the solar storm. Yesterday evening it was clear – with a little fog on the ground – but the great activity was over. Nevertheless, it was at least enough for a little […]
Northern Lights
Yesterday evening it finally worked out. After I had seen that there was a good chance of seeing auroras, I quickly dismantled my telescope and drove to Grimmershörn bay. And lo and behold, the green arc over the North Sea was easily visible. Of course, I’m most annoyed with myself because I messed up […]
Spaghetti al Pomodoro
No, not a delicious pasta recipe but the so-called Spaghetti Nebula was my object last night. Since the exposure time was only about 3.5 hours at aperture 2, it is of course not comparable with other images (usually from about 10 hours exposure time). But I am still quite satisfied with the result. The […]
Rosette-Nebula
Last night it was finally clear again; at least until about 11 pm. An opportunity to photograph the Rosette Nebula NGC 2244. Originally I didn’t think that with “only” 2.5 hours exposure time I would get much out of it, but I was proved wrong. OK, more is always good, but here in the north […]
M81/M82 – Bode Nebula
Actually, it was supposed to be the Rosette Nebula, but the full moon in almost the same direction made me choose another object. It became – like a few times before – the M81/M82 galaxy group. In contrast to the longer focal length earlier, the galaxy NGC3077 is also in the picture here. Recording […]
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
In the night of 7 February to 8 February 2023, I had another opportunity to photograph the comet. This time I used my astro equipment. Tracking was great and the ZWO ASI183 MC also provided the better image quality. With the shots, the processing in Pixinsight also succeeded perfectly, which I didn’t manage at […]