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Image of M81/82. Combination of data taken by several setups to bring out the most detail. This image was made from the light-polluted area near the City of Rotterdam in The Netherlands. http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5485/12600916325_3075eb0f1c.jpg M81/82 with SN2014J by Andre vd Hoeven , on Flickr

M81/M82 Hyperstar/TEC combination with SN2014J by Andre vd Hoeven and Michael van Doorn, on Flickr

Recently there was a supernova in M82, the Cigar galaxy. Last 2 nights I could image this supernova together with the ‘sister’ galaxy of M82, which is M81, aka Bode’s galaxy. In total I got 17.3 hours of imagery for this one. I even detect some IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula) in the image from my very ...

This is an image from the Hubble archives that is never published based on this dataset. I really regret this, because I think it's a beautiful set of data with lots of potential. I downloaded the original fits files and used them to generate this Hubble palette image of this area. It reminds me a b...

That's a lovely image, Andre. The colors are beautiful and delicate, and the nebula really appears to be "on fire"! The image looks wonderfully three-dimensional. Ann Thank you so much! I have made another version, which I even like more, but that's of course personal :) http://farm4.stat...

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3686/12158182123_ff2bf95387.jpg IC405 Flaming star by Andre vd Hoeven , on Flickr This image is a combination of my own H-alpha imagery together with color information from the Digitized Sky Survey made by the Palomar telescope. The Poss-2 red and blue data is used for...

Sun white light 12 January 2014 by Andre vd Hoeven, on Flickr

M78 reflection nebula in Orion M78 image m78_lrgb-final-3-web.jpg Copyright: André van der Hoeven (http://www.astro-photo.nl) / Maximo Ruiz (http://astromodelismo.es/) Luminance: Telescope: TEC140 Camera: QSI583 with astrodon L-filter Exposures: 62x600s and 8x300s (11 hours) Color: Camera: Canon 50D...

Because of bad weather I started to looking at old data again. I was not so happy with the old HaRGB version of this data so I did a complete reprocessing. Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula (RA: 20h18m57.4s DEC:...

About 3 weeks ago Michael van Doorn and me made images of M33 on the same evening. He took his images with his C11 Hyperstar, a 27 cm reflector with a f-ratio of only 2, allowing him to take very short exposures to gather much color information. At the same time I took images of a smaller field (the...

By searching for some papers on the internet I was able to find databases giving the coordinates of red and yellow hypergiants, post-red hypergiants (supernova progenitors), Wolf-Rayet stars, variable stars and globular clusters in M33. With pixinsight I overlaid these on the M33 image to show the d...

About 2 weeks ago Michael van Doorn and me made images of M33 on the same evening. He took his images with his C11 Hyperstar, a 27 cm reflector with a f-ratio of only 2, allowing him to take very short exposures to gather much color information. At the same time I took images of a smaller field (the...

m33_06102013_framed-800x600web.jpg Copyright: André van der Hoeven/Michael van Doorn Full resolution Recently I have teamed up with Michael van Doorn to make some imagery of M33. Michael uses a Celestron C11 with Hyperstar at f/2. This setup has a focal length of about 560mm and so does give a wide...

Barnard 344 narrowband-RGB combination:

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IC1805 The heart nebula Hubble pallete combined with RGB

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Nova time evolution video:

Time evolution of the Nova in Delphinus. Especially the color change is remarkable...

Proper motion of stars Recently I found that the images taken for the Digitized Sky Survey around 1990 are about the same image scale as the images I take now with my TEC-140. So I decided to make a comparison between an image from 1990 and 2013 of NGC 7331 and Stephan’s quintet. It clearly shows th...

I've put a nice comparison together using the images from the Digitized sky survey of 1990 and my image of 16th of August. It clearly shows the brightness of the nova and on the Digitized Sky Survey image you can see the progenitor...

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Here is my image of the nova of last night. It is shown together with ngc 6905 aka the blue flash nebula. nova_ngc6905_16082013_web.jpg Copyright: André van der Hoeven - http://www.astro-photo.nl Full resolution nova_ngc6905_16082013_annotatedweb.jpg And here is an animated version before and after ...

Here are some images that I took last night of the Nova Delphinus 2013 together with NGC 6905. All images copyright André van der Hoeven http://www.astro-photo.nl/wp_astro/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/nova_ngc6905_16082013_orig-300x237.jpg Higher resolution And annotated: http://www.astro-photo.nl/wp_...

Full resolution images: HaRGB Hubble palette Copyright: André van der Hoeven - www.astro-photo.nl Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula. Barnard 344 is located on the bottom of the image. This region is very rich of...

Barnard344_HA-S2-IR_22072013_websmall.jpg Copyright: André van der Hoeven - www.astro-photo.nl Full resolution Barnard 344 is a dark nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It’s located close to the star Sadr in the Gamma Cygni Nebula. Barnard 344 is located on the bottom of the image. This region i...

just finished last night my cygnus wall image in ngc7000.

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More info and highres: http://www.astro-photo.nl/deepsky/nebul ... le-palette

The Cygnus Wall in HaRGB (updated) Cygnus_wall_HaRGB_17072013_websmall.jpg Copyright: André van der Hoeven - http://www.astro-photo.nl High resolution HaRGB (8Mp) NGC 7000 is also known as the North America Nebula with the so called Gulf of Mexico. In this area the Cygnus Wall can be found. This pa...