Dec 31

Happy New Year!!!

Some impressions of my last 4 sessions on Gurnigel, Bern. Happy New Year and clear sky for 2017!!!

Dec 30

NGC 2237 Rosette Nebula

I started on our local mountain Weissenstein… but it was so windy… impossible to work… Finally I ended again on Gurnigel 🙂 It was also very windy at the beginning… good I decided to stay longer. It was it worth 😉 Details

Dec 28

IC 434 Horsehead Nebula

Perfect start into holidays with IC 434 Horsehead Nebula and his beautyful neighbor NGC 2024 Flame Nebula 🙂 What a wonderful clear and cold night at 1600m on Gurnigel. The next days it should stay clear… hope for some more shots of this area 🙂 Details

Nov 30

IC 443 Jellyfish Nebula

Yes! What a wunderful (cold) clear night! Finally… after weeks bad weather… This time at ISO3200. Just for testing… because of this comparison. I like the result 😉 Details

Nov 26

Stacking in PixInsight

This tutorial is for the old PixInsight version 1.8.5. Click here for the latest PixInsight version 1.8.8-7 tutorial. In PixInsight 1.8 the stacking process is really easy to handle. Very similar to DeepSkyStacker, but the result is much better. The image is overall sharper. The following settings and values I’ve collected during the last half […]

Nov 25

Jellyfish Nebula (Preview)

Very bad weather compared to last year… This evening I catched again a little cloud free window and I could make a preview of my next target, the Jellyfish Nebula IC 443. Bad conditions and only 20 minutes exposure time, so the result is not really good. Anyway, here is the image:

Nov 17

M33 Triangulum Galaxy

Very frustrating weather since weeks here… So I’m very lucky I could catch M33 before the Moon rising this evening. Details:AstroBin