wallpaper from sessions 11_01_2014 and 11_10_2014

Wallpaper of my imaging session on the 18th of July 2014. Visible are wide star field images of globular cluster M13 and open cluster M39.

Wallpaper of the sun (false color) on the 30th of July 2014

Wallpaper of my imaging session on the 6th of August 2014. Visible are telescopic images of the Moon, open cluster M11, globular cluster M13 open cluster M39 and double star Albireo.

Wallpaper of my imaging session on August 12th with M81, M82 and M45, the Pleiades open cluster.

M42 taken with DSLR and tracking mount through a thin layer of clouds

40 frame stack of the Sun at nov 21, 2014, 12.00 GMT+1, as seen from Enschede

Long exposure stack of the Dumbbell Nebula (m27)

A single frame of the Ring Nebula.

M45; Pleiades open cluster. A single 10 second frame at iso 6400

M42; Great Nebula in Orion. A stack of 16 10sec frames at iso 6400

My girlfriend under the star-littered night sky of Sao Miguel

The milky way over Sao Miguel

Looking over the north atlantic with a double open cluster and M31 clearly visible

M11 Wild Duck cluster

Single exposure of the moon

M13 globular cluster in Hercules

Double star Albireo

Bright core of the Andromeda Galaxy

Telescopic view of open cluster M39

Wide field image of M39 open cluster in Cygnus

Saturn through a 90mm reflector with fairly good seeing

Wide field 30 second exposure at ISO800 with 18-55mm zoom lens at 18mm.

My first image of the sun

jupiter xbox camera re-edit

2560×2560 composite of 300 frames made using xbox cam on 130mm Newtonian

Overexposed jupiter adjusted in photoshop

First attempt at iphone astrophotography; M42

Fireworks over Enschede 2

Fireworks over Enschede 1

Saliva with methylene blue

Saliva with iodide

Waterweeds with a blue cell due to methylene blue

Waterweeds with algae

Small crystallized droplet of pure gallium.

The same red leaf at higher magnification

Golden evening skies over Enschede

Leaf of a Brassia orchid. This is a stack of photos taken with different regions in focus.

Microscopic photo of roasted ground coffee beans for making filter coffee.

Green crater lake at Sete Cidades

Hortensia’s near Sete Cidades

Lagoa do Fogo

Hot springs at Furnas

The view from the roads of Nordeste

Eroded rock walls

Droplets on yellow flowers

The floor here seemed like a bed of moss floating on water

Fairly straight stream

Small and old Hortensia petals of a lower leaf

Agapanthus, also called ‘Lilly of the Nile’

A bumblebee being very busy with the lavender

2 Second exposure of a very little dam

One of my friend’s Geckos

A funnel-web spider’s maze between wooden sticks

Droplets coming of a little fountain, captured in 1/1000 sec.

Wrapping that mosquito in some spider silk…

20 second exposure on a stand

The same bee, still looking very busy

Yucca on the verge of bursting into bloom, from above

Clouds giving a nice contrast against the beautifully colored sky above Enschede

Hubble!!!!

Bergen aan Zee

Shark in Bergen aan Zee aquarium

Starfish rubbing the floor

Penguins in Artis Amsterdam Zoo. Artis is awesome!

Close up of butterfly in Artis

Butterflies in Artis

Outer shell of cryostat in which the superconducting magnets and LHC ring are located.

Atlas detector at CERN. The end cap toroid magnet is taken out of the inner detector (on the left) for service. The gold colored panels on the right are the muon detectors.

Almost at Geneva to visit CERN.