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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Happy New Year 2020



The year 2019 was very quiet regarding astronomical imaging. I'm building up a new imaging system with new optics and camera. Lots have been done though, I have been in many imaging conferences as a speaker. Beside that, I have been working in a book project with some of the most famous names in the world. I'll wrote more about this book next year before it's published at Spring 2020!


SILENT FIREWORKS FOR THE YEAR 2020


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Saturday, November 2, 2019

Art exhibition in Tampere, Finland



An exhibition of my astronomical photos in Tampere, Finland

Opening at Wednesday 6.11.2019 18.00, welcome!
Before the actual opening at 17.30 I'm talking about my work as an astronomical photographer.

Q-GALLERIA OJAKATU 3, TAMPERE. OPEN WE-FR 13-18, SAT 11-15.










Saturday, March 23, 2019

Exhibition in Helsinki, Finland 27.3. - 14.4. 2019



New exhibition in Helsinki about my astronomical nature photographs, lots of new material to see.
Opening hours Wednesday-Friday 12-18, Saturday-Sunday 12-16 27.3. - 14.4. 2019
Address: GALLERIA KAJASTE,  Albertinkatu 30/Bulevardi 32, 00120 Helsinki

Welcome!





Thursday, March 14, 2019

All of my photos taken with the Celestron Edge 11" telescope and 0.7 reducer for the Edge scope



Well served Celestron Edge 11" telescope went back the Celestron seller. They borrowed it to me back in 2014 and make possible to me to continue my imaging work. It was a great instrument, especially equipped with the Celestron 0.7 reducer for the Edge telescope. This system was able to cover the large CCD in Apogee alta U16 camera. The field of view was about one square degree and the image scale was optimal to my conditions, about 1 arc second per pixel. I'll publish later a collection of images taken with this combo.
With this setup, I got three APOD images published by NASA.


My photos from Autumn season 2014 to Spring season 2019
You really should click the image to see it at full size, 4000 x 6000 pixels and 20MB

All of my photos from 2014 to 2019 are taken from my city center observatory. Celestron Edge 11" telescope, 0.7 reducer for the Edge telescope, 10-Micron mount, Apogee alta U16 camera and the Astrodon narrowband filters, H-alpha 5nm, S-II 3nm and O-III 3nm.
large images in this poster are my mosaic image projects. Single frame from the camera is square with 4048 x 4048 pixels. Largest mosaic has 20 frames and about 200 hours of exposures.


I'm now looking for a new instrument to replace the well served 11" Celestron.