my favorite open star cluster, a 4 second exposure from the city of Frankfurt, taken not really under dark sky :-)

the beginning of my interest in astronomy, the eclipse 1999 in Germany (Karlsruhe)

M33 is a very dim galaxy and only visible under a dark sky

5 images added with giotto
Canon G2, 1.5 x teleconverter

like the eso-vlt (very large telescope) moon shot
this is my hight power (157x) shot of a crater

This is an upsampled image, you may surf on the moon now.
Moon 17.11.2002 Frankfurt 3720 x 2790 true color ~300kb

this is my new toy for only 99 EUR

Even a 2" eyepiece is usable :-)

this is one of the result with the widesan eyepiece, M42 and NGC1981

moon shots to compare both telescopes, this is my Skywatcher 8" dobson.

this is the moon with the little Lidl refractor (70mm, 700mm = f10)

This is an good example how processing can help to increase the resolution of the image. The original video comes from Frank Specht, I have investigate in the image processing, by using Giotto to add the best pictures. This is the result of 48 images stacked. The next image is 4 times blown up, from my point of view an incredible result.

Ok, here we go with 4 times upsampling from the original, 48 images stacked with Giotto.

Taken with Canon G2 with teleconverter. Saturn shows his elliptical structure on the rigth side.

A verry nice sunset at storm viver in South Africa

This is one of the big starcluster in the southern sky, located nearby the small magellan cloud.
Taken with the Canon G2 Teleconverter ~150mm.

three images added with giotto

this animation shows the libration of the moon between november 2001 and may 2002.

I assumne that the sunlight is refracted in the venus atmosphere.

8" 1200mm Dobson@25m, Canon G2

my neighbour tries the telescope

this picture was taken at full zoom with the Canon G2 camera, but without an eyepiece at the telescope, the light is simple the reflection of the 20cm mirror.

Here is my setup for the eclipse, I used my finder with the big sunfoil from the 8" newton, 25mm plössel, canon G2 or A620

photo by Dr. med Verena Knüfer

camp-king oberursel

overview of some ngc objects available in color of photos found from the web

cold and long night, but impressive eclipse

An example how the moon lokks throug an eyepiece at dim daylight, also no further processing applied to the image.

Compare this image with the one above from 2010. The second band is back!

Taken from two different snapshots from an animation found on the web.