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Contact information
e-mail
digidodi - @ - yahoo - . - com
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website
http://www.crea-te.com
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Locator Map
http://www.frappr.com/apppublic
Level of accuracy: western Belgium
Background
Thirty years of practical astronomy with zillions of different
scope designs and cameras, from Record Rapid, over 103a and TP2415 to
megapixel digital.
Astronomy Tales
Most significant
horror story
dropping a Harry Rutten designed large photographic Cassegrain primary and
corrector on the gravel of my driveway in one stupid accident
Most significant pleasant story
watching Hale-Bob rise while leaving a resto after a great dinner with
lots of Bourgogne wine in Southern France and next have one full week of
clear skies imaging it (not the resto)
Most shocking experience on technology
computers usually crash when you need them, and between crashes, they are
always too slow
Hardest fact in astrophotography since the spread of CCD
at equal skills of the photographer, the amount of money invested
is getting to be the major influencer in determining the wow factor of the
resulting pictures.
Bright horizon to counter the hardest fact
good equipment gets cheaper every year.
Astrophotography publications
partial list
Ciel et Espace, French magazine, many images
Zenit, Dutch magazine, many images
Sky and Telescope, US magazine, several images
Astronomy, US magazine, image of Mercury transit
Interstellarum, German magazine, images of Mars 2003, deep-sky images
Danish Astronomical Society magazine, image of Mercury transit
Teheran Astronomical Society, Iran, images of solar eclipse
Astronomy Picture of the Day, NASA, several times
Jet Propulsion Labs exhibit image display of Comet Hyakutake
For a more complete list of astro and non-astro
publications
see:
http://users.pandora.be/create/art/photographer/author.htm
Observing site
My balcony in downtown Ghent, Belgium, an observatory 30 inches wide, four
stores high.
A few times a year astrophotography trips to neighbouring France with
darker skies and a
warm sun.
Astronomical Equipment
Telescopes
80 mm TMB APO
130 mm Astro-Physics Starfire EDFS
C9.25 CF-XLT
Mounts
Astro-Physics 900 GTO (balcony)
Losmandy G11 Gemini (mobile)
Cameras
SBIG
ST10XE CCD
Nikon DSLRs |
