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24 Jan 2024 1 minute read 1 comment BrechtFromBE
Welcome to my new blog. Here I'll be posting the results of my journey learning astrophotography, when not being busy with crypto ;-) This picture was taken with the DWARF II smart telescope. Settings shutter: 1/650 gain: 0 shots: 1 IR: cut Moon...
8 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Quy Ma
How much do you know about the brightest and biggest celestial object in the night sky? Neil Armstrong was the first person to physically set foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Only 12 people have stepped foot on the Moon. The Moon and Earth are so...
7 Nov 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Quy Ma
We all know what home means. Or do we? My wife and I have been living in Utah for more than three years now. We still have a hard time considering ourselves Utahns and this place our home.You see, we’re both from the South. Although I was born in Ca...
30 Sep 2020 1 minute read 4 comments blackmagyk
If anyone has seen any of my recent posts, you would know that I had traveled all over the USA and visiting places. One thing that I have done in multiple spots is to take pictures of the stars. The astrophotography feature on my phone may not be the...
3 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Some advice to capture this rare event It doesn't matter what kind of equipment you have: this evening, at the sunset, try it! This event won't be visible for 8 years, so we have to take advantage of it. In the previous article (click HERE) i explain...
26 Jan 2020 3 minute read 2 comments astrophoto
The Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101 & NGC 5457) is a spiral galaxy and it is about 24 to 27 million light years away from us. Seen from Earth, it is located in the constellation Ursa Major / Big Dipper / Big Bear and forms a triangle with the stars Alka...
24 Jan 2020 3 minute read 9 comments astrophoto
The Cresent Nebula (NGC6888) is a bigger (regarding its apparent size) Emission Nebula and is located in the constellation of Cygnus, approximately 4,700 light-years away from us. As already written in my previous posts, the constellation of Cygnus i...
21 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Hello everyone, i shotted this photo during my holiday in Fuerteventura. This astronomical phenomenon is called "conjuction" and it verifies when 2 celestial body apparently seems closed. It's not so rare looking at this phenomenon: Moon in particula...
21 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments BrechtFromBE
Hi friends, Yesterday I did a new attempt at photographing the moon. But this time, instead of stacking multiple pictures, I did a single shot. Here's one of my three unedited photo's: But I've also done some editing on one of those three pictures:...
4 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Some of the shots took last evening. The first shot was took with a Canon EOS 750D, 55mm focal lenght, 8 seconds of time exposure and 400 ISO This another one, with a Canon EOS 6D, with higher magnification at 250mm But, first, during the preparati...
