Erwin van der Velden - astrophotography

Photographs of other sky objects and light phenomena

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Comets

	Date: 9 January 2005 Location: Leyburn, Australia Telescope: Celestron C9.25 f/6.3 on a Vixen GP-DX mount Camera: modified Nikon D70, 1x640s + 1x90s at 800 iso

Comet Machholz

	Date: 11 March 2005 Location: Leyburn, Australia Telescope: Celestron 80ED f/6.3 Camera: modified Nikon D70, 1x100s + 1x640s at 800 iso

Comet C/2005 A1 (linear)

	Date: 4 July 2005 Location: Leyburn, Australia Telescope: Celestron C9.25 f/6.3 on a Vixen GP-DX mount Camera: modified Nikon D70, 6x100s at 1600 iso, schaal 2 arcsec/pixel

Comet 9P (Temple)

Photograph taken 6.5 hour after impact

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Moons

	Date: 27 February 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia Telescope: Celestron C9.25 f/29 on a Vixen GP-DX mount Camera: Vesta Pro modified CCD webcam, resolution 0.17 arcsec/pixel

Ganymede, moon of Jupiter

	Date: 16 June 2005 Location: Australia Telescope: unknown Camera: unknown

The moon with Jupiter

	Date: 25 September 2004 Location: Leyburn, Australia Telescope: unknown Camera: modified Nikon D70, 4xunknown number of s

The Moon

	Date: 16 October 2004 Location: Leyburn, Australia Telescope: unknown Camera: modified Nikon D70, 1x4s at 800 iso

The Moon

	Date: 22 July 2002 Location: unknown Telescope: unknown Camera: unknown

The moon, Valschroet crater

	Date: 22 July 2002 Location: unknown Telescope: unknown Camera: unknown

The moon, Schickard crater

	Date: 1 January 2004 Location: unknown Telescope: unknown Camera: unknown

The moon, Plato crater

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Solar eclipse

	Date: 21 June 2001 Location: 10 km south of Lusaka, Zambia Telescope: Celestron C90 f/11 Camera: Analogue cameras, Olympus OM-1 and Minolta XE- 5, 12x1/1000 to 2s

Corona

	Date: 21 June 2001 Location: 10 km south of Lusaka, Zambia Telescope: Celestron C90 f/11 Camera: Analogue cameras, Olympus OM-1 and Minolta XE- 5

Corona, with the surface of the moon

	Date: 4 December 2002 Location: Lake Everard, Australia Telescope: Celestron C90 f/11 on a Vixen GP-DX mount Camera: unknown, 5x1/1000 to 2s

Corona

	Date: 4 december 2002 Location: Lake Everard, Australia Telescope: unknown Camera: unknown

Diamond ring

Animation of the Baily Beads.

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Light phenomena

	Date: 12 August 2004 Location: Duckadang, Australia Telescope: standard lens 18-70 at 18 mm f/3.5 Camera: modified Nikon D70, 1x640s at 400 iso

Evening Zodiacal light

	Date: 12 September 2004 Location: Leyburn, Australia Telescope: standard lens 18-70 at 18 mm f/3.5 Camera: modified Nikon D70, 2x640s at 1600 iso

Gegenschein

	Date: 7 April 2000 Location: Puimichel, France Telescope: unknown Camera: unknown

Northern Light

	Date: 7 April 2000 Location: Puimichel, France Telescope: unknown Camera: unknown

Northern Light

	Date: 7 April 2000 Location: Puimichel, France Telescope: unknown Camera: unknown

Northern Light