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 Welcome
to my LX200GPS Astronomy web site. My name is Jan Damhof.
I'm living in the Village Zuidlaren in
the Netherlands.
At this site you can follow my astrophotography adventures with
my 8" LX200GPS telescope. I try to keep you informed
with my weblog ( the news section on the right ) to give you an idea of my
progress into the world they call amateur AstroPhotoGraphy.
I hope you enjoy your stay and visite me again.
Jan.
Some new astro goodies
Astronomik Fiters and drawer 3D Counter
weight system
DSI-Pro with
Filterdrawer
Mitty upgraded Superwedge
Orbiter space simulator
If you like realistic
space simulations be sure to check out
this new version of Orbiter. It got a high learning curve but
one's you master it you will love it !
And gues what, its for free ! You can find it here.
Google earth Light pollution map of The Netherlands
II was looking for this one for some time and found the images on
this site. I made it Google earth ready my self. Hope you can use it. Be aware,
because of the detail of the map it’s kind of
large 37MB. I couldn’t get it
smaller sorry.
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Finaly B33 The
Horse head nebulare. LX200 8" - F3.3- Ha 30x4min taken with
DSI-PRO. Astronomik Ha filter. Autoguided with DSI-Color.
March 19th (2007 ) One year no updates.. The weather and
moving to an other town put my astro hobby on a hold for a while. But I got a nice update for the Dutch
visitors ! I made
a light pollution
overlay map for Google Earth from a map I found on the
internet. You can download it from my site be aware it’s kind of large.
click here to download.
( you need Google earth to use this image )
Januari 15th B33 the
horsehead nebular. Finaly I got it. This was the one that pushed my
intressed in astronomy when I was a child.
I've started a new gallery location. It's still work in progress but you
can already check
it out here !
Nov24th 1st price winner in the First Annualy DSi contest !
It got me totally by suprise but today I recieved a mail that I had won the
1st price in the First Annualy DSi contest with my LRGB M27 image!.. My first reaction was
"Yes.. sure.. SPAM..Delete.. but when I checked the site an contacted Anacortes Telescope they told me I really won a $225 Ha filter !! Woow!!
Oct 10th My
latest Images. The Cocoon nebular. Taken with the DSI-Pro. It's a combination
of a Ha a green and blue images. NGC891 Luminance only. And M27 in
5x4min Ha. Autoguiding with the DSI-Color was very good this time !
You can find them in the Lx200 images gallery
Sept 2th Ok, it
has been a while since my last update. A lot of new goodies are added to my
equipment. Let me give you my first result after the summerbreak taken with
these new astro goodies: M27
!
What's new to my equipment you ask ? here's the list:
DSI-PRO CCD camera
Astronomik LRGB filter set
Astronomik Ha 4nm Filter
Astronomik ( gerd Neuman ) Filter drawer.
Meade SuperWedge !
Mitty Superwedge Slow-mo set.
3D counter Weight set for a perfect balance
Meade F6.6 Focal reducer.
The Book: "The New CCD Astronomy"
The DSI-pro (B/W) is a more sensitive camera than my DSI-C.
My DSI-C is gonna be a dedicated autoguider.
With the Astronomik LRGB filters I'm able to get color and have beter
controle over the after image processing. I was able to get this set used
together with the Gerd Neuman Filterdrawer.
I bought the Superwedge used at www.astromart.com
for a good price and got it ship from the US within 9 weeks..
After reading some good reviews about the Mitty Superwedge slow-mo
upgrade kit I desided to get that right away. And because it is essential
to have a good balanced setup for succesfull autoguiding I looked for and
found a used weigth system for my lx200. I borrowed the
book "The New CCD Astronomy"
from a friend, and because this is a must have if you want to get the best
out of you images I ordered one to..
Well.. a lot of "hardware" but the first result (
M27) gives me the feeling it is well spent !
More news you can find on my reports
page
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