In 2014, I was able to travel less for work and thus continue a childhood dream of astrophotography. The necessary equipment was affordable and digital cameras are simply brilliant compared to 35 mm cameras. So I started with a 5″ photo Newtonian from GSO and a HEQ-5 Pro tripod. A little later I added a CCD camera from QHY. Over the years, I have repeatedly added to my equipment. I now mainly use a Celestron EdgeHD 800, a Sharpstar 6″ Hypergraph or a Samyang 135 F2 UMC, combined with CMOS cameras from ASI, the 183-MC Pro or 2600-MC Pro. An ASIAIR Pro minicomputer for control and narrow band filters are ingenious additions to get beautiful images of distant galaxies or nebulae even on the few clear and not very dark nights in the Rhine valley near Mannheim.
Nightsky.blog shows my most beautiful astrophotographies in a loose sequence and tells – here and there – short, accompanying stories.
