Ko Hummel

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Posted: 19 Aug 2022


Taken: 19 Aug 2022

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N 6939 and 6946

A nice spiral galaxy, N 6946, and an open starcluster, N 6939 in one field. The open starcluster is in our Milkyway, the spiral galaxy is 4000 times further away and is as big as our Milkyway.

Canon 700D attached to a small refractor, f=360 mm, f/6.0. T=200 x 30 sec and ISO = 3200. Tracked with a telescope mount.

This is an improvement of previous pictures I got of this pair (see PiP), but it still shows some smal tracking errors. So it will keep me busy.

I put this in the Wereldfotografiedag group because this type of fotography is not done by many Ip members and it is my passion.

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 Ko Hummel
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wie wahr
2 years ago.
 Jan
Jan
Wow!
2 years ago.
 raingirl
raingirl club
It's a wonderful passion. I'm so glad you added this to the group. Our world in just one bit of the universe - and your photos help us keep that perspective. Incredible that even with your "small tacking errors", the spiral galaxy can be seen so clearly! And you are doing this from our planet's surface - right?

I love seeing your images and the ones from the Hubble telescope and now from the James Webb. You represent an important photographic direction. And you even have the spiral galaxy.

How do you choose which direction in the sky you will photograph? Do you study star charts? What is your emotional reaction to your successful photos?

Happy World Photography Day (belated).
2 years ago.
 Ko Hummel
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thank you for your nice comments. I take all my astronomy pictures out of our garden in Emsland Germany where the lightpollution is not blocking the view of the sky. To find the objects I ofcourse use starcharts and reference books (there are plenty on the market).

It feels realy good that after a night sesion and the processing of the material end in a nice picture. I feel privileged to be able and value these kind of pictures
2 years ago.
 raingirl
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*smile*
2 years ago.

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