Living in the Netherlands is not ideal for astronomy with the high levels of light pollution covering the whole country, and not to mention the frequently cloudy weather. I miss having the dark South African skies.

I got my first telescope, a 4” Meade reflector, in 2004, and have recently upgraded to a Sky Watcher 200 PDS Explorer 8” Newtonian reflector mounted on a HEQ-5 motorised equatorial mount.

My main camera is a ZWO ASI120MM monochrome video camera, with an LRGB filter set.

In addition to my own astrophotography, I also enjoy processing raw images from other sources, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, Herschel and Cassini.

My Astrophotography

The Moon

• Waning Gibbous Moon - 22 Sep 2016
• Waxing Gibbous Moon - 12 Sep 2016
• Full Moon - 22 Mar 2016
• Moon at First Quarter - 12 Mar 2016
• Moon at First Quarter - 03 Apr 2017

The Sun

• Transit of Mercury - 9 May 2016
• Sun Dogs in a Summer Sky
• Red Sunset in an Orange Sky
• A Sun Dog Greets the Rotterdam Skyline

Jupiter

• Jupiter Colour With Galilean Moons - 25 Mar 2016
• First Colour Image of Jupiter - 15 Mar 2016
• Jupiter With Galilean Moons - 12 Mar 2016

Deep Sky

• Messier 15

Space Mission Image Processing

Cassini-Huygens

• My First Attempt at Cassini Image Processing

Spitzer

• My Spitzer Images of NGC 4448 and NGC 4490
• Spectacular Spitzer Images of a Few Galaxies - NGC 6744, NGC 3198, NGC 4536, NGC 4565, NGC 2775
• A Few More Galaxies Caught by Spitzer - NGC 2903, NGC 6221, NGC 3628, NGC 3115
• Spitzer’s View of the Nebula NGC 1763

Hubble

• My Entries for the Hubble Hidden Treasures Image Processing Contest 2012
• A shot of NGC 7213 by the Hubble Space Telescope

Herschel

• Herschel Image Processing