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Maurice Toet

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Astrophotographer from the Netherlands

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Amateur Astronomer’s Starter Pack:
- Nerd shirt ✅
- Cargo pants ✅
- Sandals ✅
- Goat-wool socks ❌ (too warm…)
- Expensive telescope rig 🔭 ✅
- Losing track of time while observing ✅
- Looking up when exiting a building ✅

First light with the Baader 2” Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism Mark II

17.05.2025 18:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Exactly 19 years after the total solar #eclipse I observed in Libya, a partial solar eclipse was visible in the Netherlands today. Fortunately, it was clear around the maximum to capture an image.

29.03.2025 13:29 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Sunrise last Saturday at national park Drents-Friese Wold.

25.03.2025 20:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It should state Sh2-249 & Sh2-248…

23.03.2025 10:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sh2-149 & Sh2-148 (IC 443), Jellyfish Nebula | Hα

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23.03.2025 09:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The sun just set and the camera is cooling down for a night of deep sky imaging. #astronomy #astrophotography #deepsky

17.03.2025 18:10 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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NGC 2264, Christmas Tree Cluster & Surrounding Field
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11.03.2025 19:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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B33, Horsehead Nebula | Hα-LRGB Integration time: 15 hours (60x 300" Hα, 36x 300" L, 24x 300" R, 24x 300" G, 36x 300" B) | Optics: Takahashi ε-180ED f/2.8 | Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro (B 1x1, G 100, T -10 °C) | Acquisition: ZWO ASIai...

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05.03.2025 21:12 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Integration time: 5 hours (60x 300" Hα) | Optics: Takahashi ε-180ED f/2.8 | Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro (B 1x1, G 100, T -10 °C) | Acquisition: ZWO ASIair Pro | Filter: Baader Planetarium Ultra-Highspeed Hα 3.5nm | Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO | Location: De Kiel, Netherlands | SQM: 21.0 magn/arcsec² | Date: 16 & 17 February 2025 | Processing: Astro Pixel Processor (data reduction), PixInsight (GradientCorrection, RC Astro's BlurXTerminator), Adobe Photoshop (post processing, RC Astro's NoiseXTerminator)

Integration time: 5 hours (60x 300" Hα) | Optics: Takahashi ε-180ED f/2.8 | Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro (B 1x1, G 100, T -10 °C) | Acquisition: ZWO ASIair Pro | Filter: Baader Planetarium Ultra-Highspeed Hα 3.5nm | Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO | Location: De Kiel, Netherlands | SQM: 21.0 magn/arcsec² | Date: 16 & 17 February 2025 | Processing: Astro Pixel Processor (data reduction), PixInsight (GradientCorrection, RC Astro's BlurXTerminator), Adobe Photoshop (post processing, RC Astro's NoiseXTerminator)

A dive into an ocean of hydrogen clouds: the well-known area around the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Hα only
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21.02.2025 21:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This one never gets old… The Horsehead Nebula in Orion. Automated sequence running with the ZWO ASIair Pro + 📷 ASI2600MM Pro + 🔭 Takahashi ε-180ED @ 500 mm f/2.8 + 🔴 Baader Planetarium Hα f/3 Ultra-Highspeed filter (3.5nm).

16.02.2025 19:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Captured with a Baader modified Canon 5D Mark II (ISO 1600) DSLR and a Takahashi Epsilon-180ED (500 mm f/2.8) on an Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO mount under a 21.5 magnitude/arcsec² sky in Étoile-Saint-Cyrice (Hautes-Alpes, France) on 25 & 27 March 2014. It's a two pane mosaic with a total integration time of 1 hour and 35 minutes.

Captured with a Baader modified Canon 5D Mark II (ISO 1600) DSLR and a Takahashi Epsilon-180ED (500 mm f/2.8) on an Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO mount under a 21.5 magnitude/arcsec² sky in Étoile-Saint-Cyrice (Hautes-Alpes, France) on 25 & 27 March 2014. It's a two pane mosaic with a total integration time of 1 hour and 35 minutes.

Dusted off this 11-year-old image of Orion's Belt which was shortlisted in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 competition by the Royal Observatory at Royal Museums Greenwich.

13.02.2025 19:45 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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NGC 2170, the Angel Nebula in Monoceros

A bit noisy due to lack of exposure time on this tenuous object in Monoceros. I decided to process the data, as I most probably have to wait for moonless, clear nights next winter to continue on this object.

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06.02.2025 19:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beautiful clear skies, finally ✨

01.02.2025 19:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beautiful clear skies, finally ✨

01.02.2025 19:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ready for #deepsky #imaging again. Today I installed the #Takahashi ε-180ED in tandem with the FS-60 on the AP Mach1 in the observatory. The AP 130 #StarFire GTX sits back on the AP 600E mount in 'portable-setup-mode' for visual use and solar imaging.

01.02.2025 16:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Misty winter day @ Sleenerzand forest

19.01.2025 15:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Roll-off Roof Observatory 2.0 - Maurice Toet This gallery hosted by SmugMug; your photos look better here.

In 2020 I built my first GreenLine roll-off roof observatory in my back garden in Zoetermeer. This prefabricated observatory is made by Dome Parts GmbH. After moving to De Kiel in 2024, I started building another one. Progress photos of the second observatory can be seen here.

10.01.2025 16:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Captured with a Nikon D810a in prime focus of an Astro-Physics 130 mm f/6.3 StarFire GTX "Gran Turismo" Triplet Apochromat (F = 819 mm, 1/15 seconds @ ISO 1000).

Captured with a Nikon D810a in prime focus of an Astro-Physics 130 mm f/6.3 StarFire GTX "Gran Turismo" Triplet Apochromat (F = 819 mm, 1/15 seconds @ ISO 1000).

Saturn, 3 minutes prior to lunar #occultation. Unfortunately it was too cloudy to witness the egress (third contact) of #Saturn on the lit side of the #moon.

04.01.2025 19:24 — 👍 28    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Beautiful #conjunction of #Venus and the #Moon this evening. Tomorrow evening, #Saturn will be occulted by the Moon. Fingers crossed for clear skies...

03.01.2025 19:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Het was prachtig om te zien. Hopelijk klaart het morgenavond op om de Saturnusbedekking door de maan waar te kunnen nemen.

03.01.2025 19:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Het was prachtig om te zien. Hopelijk klaart het morgenavond op om de Saturnusbedekking door de maan waar te kunnen nemen.

03.01.2025 19:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The end of 2024 is near, so here's an overview of astronomy activities and sightings I was happy to witness and observe:
- Comet P12/Pons-Brooks
- Spectacular Aurora displays
- Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
- Attending the starparties in Wateren & Grandpré
- My yearly visit to Olly in Étoile

21.12.2024 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My main imaging setup going strong for ± 12 yrs: Takahashi ε-180ED + Astro-Physics Mach1. Here in combination with a Nikon D810a.

26.11.2024 18:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Throwback time. While browsing through some old pics, I found some captured with my first CCD camera: a QHY8. Not the greatest camera, but a giant leap in sensitivity compared to analogue (film) astrophotography. Here it is attached in prime focus of a Takahashi FSQ-106ED mounted on a Losmandy GM-8.

20.11.2024 20:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, Lewes! Yes, the are many of these dark nebulae in Perseus. Taurus is also a good candidate for 'molecular clouds'.

19.11.2024 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Le pièce de résistance' of a week of #astrophotography in Étoile-Saint-Cyrice: a two pane mosaic of the wonderful field around colourful #NGC1333, which contains Van den Bergh 12, 13, 16 & 17 (right next to NGC 1333) as well as #Barnard 1 and Barnard 202 to 206.

18.11.2024 20:29 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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