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Jurgen de Boer

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  1. I took these photo's yesterday at the Schothorst Observatory in Amersfoort trough a Meade 12inch LX200 telescope.

    The special thing is I used NO camera adapter, I just held my SLR against the oculair, focused and made the photo's.

    Enjoy!

    Saturn.

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    The Moon.

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    Close-ups of the Moon

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  2. Jurgen, was the hail shower pic taken through a car windscreen or building window?

    Whatever it's taken through I like how the outlining shape of the (windscreen?) complements the shape of the cloud. Also, having the tall trees dead central to the darkest cloud is excellent :) !

    Actualy it is a combination of 3 photo's (stitcht it together) because of 18mm lens the photos are shown in a bit of an arc (birdeye view).

    Thanks for the comments (i didn't like all the hail and rain... but it gives wonderfull photo's).

  3. After photographing 2 bright comets in Januari (McNaught) and November (Holmes), last night the weather was finaly good enough to try to photograph the comet 8P/Tuttle.

    I used a Canon EOS350D set at 2,5 minutes, 800 ISO and a 100mm telelens piggyback on telescope.

    The comet itself was a bit hard to see.

    Here are the results, I hope you enjoy them.

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    On the same evening i also photographed te planet Mars.

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    Sunspot 960 has a "beta-gamma-delta" magnetic field that harbors energy for powerful X-class solar flares.

    NOAA forecasters estimate a 20% chance of such a flare during the next 24 hours.

    A big eruption could trigger ion storms, radio fadeouts and, if all goes well, auroras.

    For instance, an M3-flare from sunspot 960 on June 1st caused a shortwave fadeout over Europe.

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