for 4 nights and mornings longs i could see NLC’s.
yesterday they were pretty !, so took the cam for some shots.

since last week i got semi professional weather station.
its an oregon scientific WMR-200

at the end of march 2009, i was in french for a astro trip.
on a morning my losmandy G-11 + vixen R200SS and guidescope were blown to the ground by the wind.

i still can’t photograph with the r200SS because i need to order a new set of OTA rings.

friday 29th of may, i was photographing with my eos 40D + 70-200 2,8 IS on 70mm F4,5 to NGC 7000 ( north america nebula )
ive captured 2 hours and 16 minuts in 4minut sub exposure stacked in DeepSky Stacker.

and this is an crop, with some editing to show the nebula more.

made a small timelaps with my eos 1D Mark II and tokina 10-17.
every 10 seconds a photo, and did 6fps for the movie.

After a few weeks/months Emiel Veldhuis and my website about broadcasting the sun, live in Hydrogen Alpha is getting finised now.
i only have to look for some other broadcasting software.

www.solarlive.nu

WoW, amazing skies here in Verclause.
the way to verclause was very cool, you see alot of the french alpes!

At this moment we will leave from Belgium to Verclause in France.
we have to travel around 1100 km.

now, 2:00 AM we will leave from oure vacantion home to the place Turnhout in belgium( 133km ), were i will meet Karel Teuwen.

This afternoon we have left oure home in ijmuiden to go to oure vacantion home in south limburg.
this travel of 240km is just a small part from what i will travel during 24 hours.
  

yesterday night i was finaly ready to try my autoguider, the QHY5 from  QHYccd.
ive made an ST 4 cable myself, and i already got a splitter to split up the RJ12 connection from the losmandy controlpanel.

i had to manage a 300second ( 5 minute( ISO 1000 with 40D ) ) exposure of Mizar and Alcor, the Double star in the Big dipper,
i have made a crop of the left upper corner of the photograph to show that there is almost no movement in the stars, and the Baader MPCC is doing a great job !