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Sunspot 1024 with plane.

Posted by Erwin Kats on July 5, 2009 – 18:38
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i was making some pics of Sunspot 1024, a group of sunspots that is on the sun its disk at the moment.
i was photographing with my Vixen R200SS and canon eos 40D + Orion Glass filterm, while the plane pased  by.

NLC Display 23-June-2009

Posted by Erwin Kats on June 24, 2009 – 17:22
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for 4 nights and mornings longs i could see NLC’s.
yesterday they were pretty !, so took the cam for some shots.

Solarlive

Posted by Erwin Kats on May 5, 2009 – 09:00
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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

Verclause

Posted by Erwin Kats on March 22, 2009 – 21:52
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WoW, amazing skies here in Verclause.
the way to verclause was very cool, you see alot of the french alpes!

R200ss update

Posted by Erwin Kats on February 9, 2009 – 20:11
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This weekend i went to the Robtics store ( www.robtics.nl )

i have bought an Moonlite focuser ( motorfocus ) with an Baader MPCC.
i hope that the MPCC will perform good, but i will have to try that out, coma on youre photos ruin it.

Happy new year

Posted by Erwin Kats on December 31, 2008 – 00:00
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2008 was a great year for myself.
i started photographing on bigger party’s,i also met more friends in the photograpy.
next to that i want to thank all the people for visiting my website, and i wish every visitor of my website the best in 2009

New to me !

Posted by Erwin Kats on November 20, 2008 – 22:41
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Well after alot of waiting, and thinking.
i finally bought an 2nd hand Vixen R200SS.
a belgium astronomer, Erwin de Bock was selling his older Vixen R200SS ota for a reasonable price.
the ota is in very good condition for its age ( around 6 years old ), off-course i e-mailed Vixen.com first if the newer R200SS has a better mirror, but they say its exactly the same mirror, but the OTA is from ligther material and a newer rack an pinion focuser.

well, mine focuser weill be replaced for an Moonlite PC focuser, and i will also buy an Baader Coma Corretor.

sun Halo.

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Posted by Erwin Kats on August 6, 2008 – 16:04
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Today i received an e-mail that there was an sun Halo…
1 minute after reading the e-mail i took my camera for some photo’s…
well, here we go.

Thunderstorm 1-08-2008

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Posted by Erwin Kats on August 1, 2008 – 06:12
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last few days were just to hot to work… but all the work has payed of, this night we had an amazing thunderstorm heading to ijmuiden.
well it started with some flashes around 00:15 AM, around 01:10 AM more flashes, and also some nice sounds…

well here some pics.
*made with eos 1D Mark 2, around 15 secs exposure per photo, around iso 320. and 17mm @ F5,6

holiday (2)

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Posted by Erwin Kats on July 10, 2008 – 00:24
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well… if youre on vacantion, it would be great if you have some nice weather…
well… the past days were awefull, alot of rain, and yesterday finaly some lightning :)

So here some pics.

 
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