Recently I created a “Remake” of my last Timelapse video “Day and night on La Palma”. The remake has new music (Divenire from Ludovico Einaudi) and a new cut. Enjoy 🙂
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Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:38 pm
Finally, I had the chance to visit Star-Island La Palma again. My best photos from this beautiful place I want to share here.
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Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:40 pm
This article is about Astrophotography in Oberstdorf. Last year I put all my equipment into the car and drove to Lake Garda. Unfortunately, in contrast to the forecast I had lots of clouds and no chance to take a good astro-picture. Last weekend I decided to give it another try and took all my equipment to Oberstdorf – a small village at the foot of the German Alps. Beside hiking I think this place is well suited for astrophotography.
I found a good place not far from the center of Oberstdorf, with free view to Polaris and almost no traffic:
GPS coordinates: 47°24’17.5″N 10°17’28.9″E
Important update: The described location can only be reached by car when driving into a “no entry” road. Of course you do this on your own risk.
(Oh, and btw. a good Italian restaurant is also not too far: Ai Quattro Canti…)
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vdB 126 is a reflection nebula in constellation Vulpecula. To me it looks like a black claw with at least 4 fingers.
I like the many stars in this region! In this clear night I was able to get 8 good IR frames before the moon rose. For stacking I used DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 with Kappa-Sigma Clipping. The picture is also available in full resolution here. Finally, I decided to put it into my My Top Astro-Pics gallery.
 | Date | 2015/07/08 |
 | Location | Böblingen / Germany |
 | Object | vdB126 (Reflection nebula) |
 | Camera | Atik383L+ |
 | Guiding | yes, QHY5-II Mono via OAG |
 | Telescope | 8 |
 | Barlow lens | none |
 | Mount | EQ6Syntrek |
 | Cooling | -15°C |
 | Luminance | 8x, 600s, bin: 1x1 |
 | Red | 7x, 150s, bin: 2x2 |
 | Green | 7x, 150s, bin: 2x2 |
 | Blue | 7x, 150s, bin: 2x2 |
 | Dark | 10x |
 | Flat | 10x |
 | Total exposure | ~2h12min. |
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Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 23:33 pm
On my last La Palma holiday I did lots of experiments with my X-T1 camera. This time I was especially looking into time-lapsing. The result is “Day and Night on La Palma” – a 5 minute video about this beautiful island. To me, La Palma is the perfect place for doing this kind of videos. In this short video I want to show the highlights of my last holiday. Lots of stars, clouds and sunsets… 🙂 In order to make this video I visited many different places of the island. Some of them were Roque de Los Muchachos, Mirador del Jable, Mirador del Time and Pico Birigoyo. The music title “Worlds” has been composed by Jacob Tyler. I found it on www.soundcloud.com. I hope you enjoy the video 🙂
For those who are interested in technical details:
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