Andromeda Galaxy

Hello again,

I would like to show you now, what I did last summer.

It is my very first deep sky picture. As an object I choose an Andromeda galaxy (M31, or NGC 224) whitch is easy to find and nice and bright. I used free expositures of 8 minutes, without pointing in the primar teleskope view.

All the set up is my good old Skywatcher 750/150 newtonian teleskope with a Nikon D7000 on a HEQ5 mount. I still suffer from missing off-axis guider whitch I need for mount correction (aka pointing).

And I would like to continue with a small habbit I used to do with my entries. A poetry. This one is from pre-war writer William Carlos Williams and is called Peace on Earth:


The Archer is wake!
The Swan is flying!
Gold against blue
An Arrow is lying.
There is hunting in heaven--
Sleep safe till to-morrow.

The Bears are abroad!
The Eagle is screaming!
Gold against blue
Their eyes are gleaming!
Sleep!
Sleep safe till to-morrow.

The Sisters lie
With their arms intertwining;
Gold against blue
Their hair is shining!
The Serpent writhes!
Orion is listening!
Gold against blue
His sword is glistening!
Sleep!
There is hunting in heaven--
Sleep safe till to-morrow.

Moon 3.3. 2012

Long time no see, but here I am now, and I want to show you some nice pictures I've been doing this summer. I'll start from the start. March 2012.

I'll start with a moon (yes again [3.3.2012]).

Moon is really good object for astrophotography, because you can learl all kind of things. Expositure, focusing, post-procesing. And the final product is beautiful. I can stare at the moon looong hours.

Skywatcher 750/150 + Celestron CCD nexImage + Lynkeos + Photoshop

Transit of Venus 2012 - Slovakia

Hello, hello,

so, have you seen it? We have. Transit of Venus. None of living people will see it again. And what is the best thing? That amastsee recored it. Ou yeah :)

Video of the last few seconds of tranzit is at my youtube. It has speed 400x of normal.

And some pictures of our siteseeing.

I am not on them but whatever. As you can see, we are at Slavín in Bratislava. There was more people then I expected but that was fajn. Some of them wanted to look, so we let them ;).

And these are pictures through the teleskope (Skywatcher 750/150+ Celestron NexImage camera)

Moon 6.1 2012

New moon picture taken 6.1 2012