Starship Asterisk*

Telescope: TMB92
Camera: QSI583ws

Lum: 60x600s
RGB: 36x600s

Total: 16 hours


NGC7023_lrgb_aug2018 spikes 1600px annotated by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

On the night of the 12th to the 13th of August I have been observing the Perseid meteor shower from Steinborn in the Eifel, Germany. During the night I had two camera's running all night taking images of the sky to see if I would be able to catch some of the Perseids. This image was made using a Nik...

This image shows one of my favourite regions in the Northern skies. It's the region surrounding the star Sadr in the constellation of Cygnus. This image was made using astrodon narrowband filters for Ha (5nm), OIII (3nm) and SII (5nm). Equipment used was a TMB92 with a QSI583ws ccd camera cooled to ...

lunar_eclipse_27072018_2259CEST logo by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

SH2-155 Colourful Cave Nebula by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

Imagine flying over the moon in a space capsule and looking down at the lunar surface. What you would see would be astonishing. This image gives a bit of an impression what you could see flying over the Clavius region in the southern part of the Moon when approaching in orbit from the north. That is...

IC by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

This image is an further work on a previous image that I released last week. After finding that it was possible to bring out details of the lunar limb using the imagery made during the total eclipse I started looking a bit further into the topic. It showed that there is very nice software from the I...

A while ago I saw a post from Pete Lawrence from BBC Sky at Night in which he showed that you can see the lunar limb profile in the images from the Baily beads taken during the solar eclipse. When I started making an beads sequence I remembered this post and thought it was worthwhile to see if I cou...

This image shows an a so-called Pellett processing of the Solar Corona during the last eclipse as made in Teton Village, WY. I made about 22 images using several exposures to try to catch the complete corona during the eclipse and the surrounding star field. The equipment used for this image was a N...

Well, the eclipse is already almost a week ago and I had the time to start processing the data. Somehow I succeeded in getting exactly the image as I wanted it. I'm really happy with this result... This image shows the totality phase from start to end, about 2 minutes 16s caught in one image. The im...

Solar Eclipse 2017 Grand Teton by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

Before people start to dissect the images and saying it's faked I want to make clear these are all original as I shot them. The answers are quite simple. 1) the exposure times were three minutes, so the total time was about 9 minutes, so it was not that fast in motion 2) the stripe in the second ima...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2888/34185257516_0855d4bbcf_c.jpg A soap bubble and its neighbour... by Andre van der Hoeven , on Flickr The "Soap Bubble Nebula" is the common name for the planetary nebula PN G75.5+1.7. This nebula was only discovered by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich o...

This image shows a composite of two images taken at different moments in the lunar cycle (first quarter and full moon) to show the complete moon during first quarter as it can be seen when earthshine is observed. This results in almost 3D like image of the moon showing a lot of details. https://c1.s...

A very high detail view of the moon...


First quarter moon 03042017 by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

A glory shadow above the Dominican Monastery in Zwolle, The Netherlands...



Glory above Dominican Monastery Zwolle by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

One of my favorite regions in the sky:


The depths of the Cygnus Cross by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

NGC 7822 widefield by Andre van der Hoeven, on Flickr

The "Soap Bubble Nebula" is the common name for the planetary nebula PN G75.5+1.7. This nebula was only discovered by amateur astronomer Dave Jurasevich on July 6th, 2008. It was independently confirmed and reported by Keith Quattrocchi and Mel Helm on July 17th, 2008. PN G75.5+1.7 is situ...

I'm flabbergasted about the fact that the clouds didn't move in 9 years between 2007 and 2016. That's really shaking up all knowledge about the Martian atmosphere, isn't it?

See this animation where I put the map from the video over the 2007 Space Telescope surface map.

Let's not start a fight, because it's not necessary at all. I do believe you were there, and I do believe he took the videos. I just think there has been a manipulation between the raw data and the final result. Somehow it looks like details have been enhanced with professional imagery. You can impo...

Dear all, I am a professional Aerospace Engineer(M.S degree), so I guess I owe enough knowledge about maths and physics to be critical with the things around me. Congratulations! It sounds that applies to me also then, because I'm also an Aerospace Engineer, and next to that I have also a second M....

Really, with a 30 cm as he said? This can't be real.This is a forgery, and I'm sure this will come out very soon. It's unfortunate this happens again, because in this way amateur imagery will get a very bad name.... And if I'm wrong I would love the person who made it to show some raw imagery...

Here is an image of the nice dark nebula LDN 1251 in Cepheus:
A full size version can be found at this link.