Digital and Analog Astro-photography

Astro-photos made with film and digital cameras

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Digital camera photography

Total Lunar Eclipse, March 3-4, 2007

Lunar Eclipse Gallery 2007-03-03
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Noctilucent Clouds Summer 2006

Noctilucent Clouds 14 and 23 July 2006

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Noctilucent Clouds Summer 2005

Noctilucent Clouds 14 and 19 June 2005

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Crescent Moon

	Crescent Moon 11 April 2005. Takahashi FS-60C and Coolpix 4500 Exposure 1/15 sec at f/5.4 (ISO 100) Full resolution
	Earthshine, 11 April 2005. Takahashi FS-60C and Coolpix 4500 Exposure 4 sec at f/5.4 (ISO 100)

Bright Aurora - Rijswijk, 21 January 2005

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Noctilucent clouds - Denmark 2004

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Transit of Venus - 8 June 2004

See Webcam section for images of the contacts

	Full disk image after mid transit. C5 with 25 mm plössl and Coolpix 4500 with wide field converter
	About an hour after second contact. Full zoom C5 with 25 mm plössl and Coolpix 4500
	Third contact approaching C5 with 25 mm plössl and Coolpix 4500

Total Lunar Eclipse, November 9, 2003

Lunar Eclipse Gallery
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Aurora October 30, 2003

Aurora Gallery
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Film photography

Denmark August 2003

All photos except star trails made with OM1 piggybacked on C8

	Cygnus 24 Aug, 2003 50mm/1.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 10 min
	Deneb and NGC 7000 (North America Nebula) 24 Aug, 2003 135mm/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 15 min
	IC 1396 in Cepheus 24 Aug, 2003 135mm/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 17 min
	Milky Way between Cepheus and Cassiopeia 24 Aug, 2003 50mm/1.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 15 min
	Cassiopeia 24 Aug, 2003 135mm/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 15 min
	Double Cluster (NGC 869/884) in Perseus 24 Aug, 2003 135mm/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 10 min
	M31, The Andromeda Galaxy 24 Aug, 2003 135mm/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 17 min
	M45, The Pleiades in Taurus 24 Aug, 2003 135mm/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 15 min
	Distant lightning and star trails 30 Aug, 2003 50mm/1.8 Zuiko lens at f/2.8 - Kodak Supra 400 - 3 min M45 is visible to the upper left.
	Taurus rising over thundercloud 30 Aug, 2003 50mm/1.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 5 min This time piggyback exposure. The camera was oriented with up approximately towards celestial north. Rotated to show horizon as horizontal.

Photos Puimichel 2003

	Pipe Nebula Puimichel, 01 May, 2003 135/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 18 min
	Sagittarius with M8 Puimichel, 01 May, 2003 135/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 15 min
	Scutum Star Cloud Puimichel, 01 May, 2003 135/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 15 min

	Jupiter near M44 (Beehive Cluster) Veluwe, 23 March, 2003 135/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 3 min During Winter and Spring 2003 Jupiter stayed close to M44.
	Monoceros with Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237/2244) Veluwe, 23 March, 2003 135/2.8 Zuiko lens at f/4 - Kodak Supra 400 - 10 min

Astrophotos Puimichel (France), May 2002

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Comet Ikeya-Zhang in April 2002

Comet 2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang)
Denmark, April 2, 2002
135/2.8 lens at f/4 piggyback on G-5, Fuji 400 film, 2 min

The sky was covered with a thin haze causing halos around bright stars like beta Andromedae at the bottom of the picture

Comet Ikeya-Zhang
Veluwe (NL), April 6, 2002
135/2.8 lens at f/4 piggyback on C8, Fuji Superia 400, 4 min

The visible length of the tail is 8 degrees on this foto! The comet had a close encounter with M31, the Andromeda Galaxy, a couple of days earlier. The conditions were not perfect with some cirrus over the horizon illuminated by the omni-present sodium lights of the Netherlands. The picture has been processed significantly to remove the worst part of the skyglow

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