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2012-02-24 :: Just for fun. Single shoot astrophotography :)

2012-01-28 :: Almost 20 hours of light for the Horsehead.

2011-11-20 :: Something blue for a change. Wider angle and more time for Pleiads.

2011-11-13 :: A black and white one this time. It was a test of the moon impact on H-alpha photography. The conclusion would be, that there is some impact, but the results are still usable even at full moon.

2011-10-07 :: I kept shooting the Veil 5 nights in a week. The blue channel is week due to use of Halpha as luminance.

2011-09-06 :: Finally my favorite object in the sky. The Andromeda galaxy. It was a week full of clear skies, and I was out 4 nights in a row to take this 46500 second exposure :)

2011-08-29 :: Comet Garradd flew by globular cluster M71 on 26 of August. This is a picture from two days earlier.

2011-08-24 :: Improved North American nebula with almost 4 hours of hydrogen alpha exposure.

2011-08-13 :: Perseid meteor shower at full moon!

2011-06-19 :: Some local activity. One of the darkest and longest lunar eclipses in some time.

2011-04-24 :: My first test image taken with H-alpha filter. North America Nebula was a perfect candidate.

2011-04-05 :: Whirlpool Galaxy added.

2011-03-27 :: Saturn's rings are back in place!

2011-03-10 :: It's galaxy time! M81 M82

2011-02-28 :: Monkey head nebula. Very nice result. I experimented with 10 minute exposures and 450D did very well. The guiding was a bit off though!

2011-01-05 :: Partial solar eclipse. A nice start into 2011!

2010-12-12 :: Merry Xmas Tree :)

2010-11-09 :: Minor web page updates.

2010-10-12 :: I shot comet Hartley 2. The brightest comet of 2010.

2010-09-11 :: Uranus photo added.

2010-08-10 :: Web page now has it's own subdomain: astro.myspacegarden.com

2010-07-14 :: I added three photos. M13, M57 and the Elephant's trunk witch is the first one taken with OAG. So far, no more flexing for me... :)

2010-01-21 :: Paracorr did a good job on its first night out. The Pinwheel Galaxy was the target, and the coma is almost gone.

2009-12-28 :: I got TV Paracorr some time ago, and later had to replace the original SW focuser with Baader Steeltrack, to achive focus. Some pictures here.

2009-11-20 :: The Crab Nebula is the smallest deep sky object I ever photographed. But, it's size was actualy a bonus since I am still missing the coma corrector.

2009-11-12 :: The newly modified Canon 450D was put to good use and a much improved version of Horsehead nebula is now in my gallery

2009-10-28 :: I modified my Canon 450D camera. I replaced the original IR filter with a better one from Baader. For comparison I will most likely do another session on Horsehead nebula.

2009-10-27 :: It was a serious attempt on the Horsehead, but the weather didn't hold. An hour and a half was only half of what I had hoped for.

2009-10-22 :: Some photos of my new equipment

2009-10-20 :: After some time, at least half a night of clear skies, and this is the result. Triangulum Galaxy

2009-10-08 :: New pages are Firefox friendly.

2009-10-08 :: Brand new WebPage

2009-09-27 :: New Pleiades photo coming soon.

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