New airplane

Last sunday I crashed my Protech Azurro.....I made a big mistake during takeoff (too much up) and after that my plane crashed. Therefore was working very hard last 2 nights to finish my new Kyosho Calmato.....Unbelievabe, many things are already finished and everything fits. My previous plane was much more work, it took me weeks to finish it. The Calmato is very straightforward and simple to build, it took me 2 evenings........

Eyepieces collection

This is the collection after a few years of searching and looking around on the 2nd hand fora. The latest additions were the 33mm Willliam Optics SWAN, marvellous eyepiece, did me a lot of good in La Palma. This island has so dark nights that looking through a 33mm eyepiece gives a very nice view with a dark background. The latest addition is a 4mm TMB/Burgess Planetary eyepiece which drives my telescope to a power of 250x....

Astro holiday on La Palma

Here's a picture I took on La Palma with a Meade 250mm/F4 Schmidt Newton and my trusted Eos400d. Because I could not get autoguiding working I could only expose for 15sec. This is a stack of 180x15sec@ISO1600.





And a crop of M27











Here I'm observing the lower regions of Scorpio through the 250mm Schmidt Newton.






We also went on top of Roque de La Muchachos where the international observatory is situated. This is a picture of the GTC, the largest telescope on the site, just before its official inauguration.




My holiday workhorse: the 250mm Meade Schmidt Newton.











We also went for a walk on the volcanoes. Here you see the Teneguia that erupted in 1971.






We also went on a boat-trip to see the Island La Palma from the sea, afther that our captain found some dolphins.....






And here you see one of the chicken that are walking around the garden next to our holiday house........