A day at Burgers Zoo

Yesterday we went to Burgers' Zoo near Arnhem. It was a little bit raining, but the beautiful zoo compensated this fully, see: http://picasaweb.google.com/patrickduis2/ADayAtBurgersZoo#

Perseus on the 18th of August 2010 (without Perseids)

This is a picture of Perseus I made last thursdayevening. It doesn't show any Perseids but M31 and the double cluster NGC869/884 is visible. It is a combination of 13 30sec exposures at ISO1600 combined in 1 picture with a total exposure time of 6min30sec.

Open cluster M39 in Cygnus

Last week I photographed the beautiful M39 cluster in Cygnus. This is a combination of 2 20min exposures at ISO800 with a Eos400d in the primary focus of my 200mmF5 Newtonian. This loose cluster is standing 800 lightyears distance from us.

Presentation at the Halley observatory

Here me and my astrobuddy Morelinux (I'm standing in the front) are giving our presentations in the beautiful Halley observatory in Heesch (near Den Bosch). After that we viewed M27, M57 and Jupiter with the C14 telescope in the dome. It was a nice evening in a nice observatory.