Bernd Flachsbart

Thanks a lot! Glad you like it 😊
It’s really worth imaging these beautiful pair of reflection nebulas.
Same here in northern Germany with the bad weather. Nothing but clouds since several weeks ☹️

A deep-sky astrophotography image showing the Horsehead Nebula silhouetted against a glowing red emission cloud in Orion. On the left, the bright star Alnitak creates a strong flare and scattered light, contrasting with the delicate dark shape of the nebula and surrounding wisps of gas. The scene is detailed and colorful, captured with an A7S and a Newton 130/900 telescope.

✨The Horsehead and Flame nebulae.
The difficulty of this capture was keeping Alnitak, one of the brightest stars in Orion’s belt, under control.
📷Setup : Sony A7S, Newton 130/900.
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Amazing shot! 👏

Vielen Dank, Andreas! 😊

Thanks a lot, Julien! 🙂

Thanks a lot!

Merci beaucoup, Clément ! 😌

Yay! My VdB 14 and VdB 15 image was voted Top Pick Nomination on AstroBin! 🥳

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Les Pléiades. Des étoiles très brillantes dans un halo bleuté.

Et voilà ! Merci à vous, vous êtes 1000 !

Et pour fêter ça, voici une nouvelle photo des Pléiades ! Et je pense que c'est ma meilleure photo, toute cible confondue...
Et chose amusante, pour obtenir ce résultat, j'ai tenté : je n'ai mis aucun filtre ! 😁

Vous en pensez quoi ? 😇

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C’est magnifique, Martial! 🤩

🔭 The Triangulum Galaxy, M33 is a beautiful sight. 2.73 million light years from earth it's the third largest galaxy visible. I took this photo using LRGB and Ha filters for about 20 hours.

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Large: app.astrobin.com/i/ymzzmc

What a beautiful shot! 👏🤩

Couverture du journal "L'astronome" de décembre 2025

2 de mes photos publiées dans le même journal

Ça fait tellement bizarre de voir ses propres photos dans un journal 🥳🥳

Quelle réussite 👏😀

Warm-toned long-exposure moonrise with blurred clouds, silhouetted trees, and a wooden multi-direction sign in the foreground.

A rise of moon on an autumn sky. I came out ready for a full night of astro, but once again the weather won… and somehow still offered me this quiet moment. #warmth #blueskyartshow

Amazing colour 🤩

Another couple of clear nights gave me a chance to collect about 12 hours of photons on M33. Shot in LRGB + H-alpha with my SW Esprit 80ED 80-mm f/5 refractor and ASI2600MM Pro camera. More info on Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/4tmgil

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Beautiful image with a lot of depth and details. Wonderful work! 🤩

Vielen Dank, Phillip! 🙂

Vielen Dank, Andreas! Ich war selber etwas erstaunt was ich in der Nachbearbeitung rausholen konnte. Nach dem ersten Roh-Stack hatte ich erst Zweifel ob ich das Bild überhaupt bearbeiten soll 😅
Es ist auf jeden Fall ein sehr lohnendes Objekt!

I’m using the Baader UFC as filter drawer for my Hyperstar and it’s adjustable so that the threads are kind of in a rotated position and thus the camera gets rotated. It’s a bit more effort because I have to handle several really tiny screws with an allen key. But collimation is preserved that way!

And what I also learned is: Don’t rotate the Hyperstar for framing! It’s supposed to be rotatable and there are even screws for that but from my experience that’s not good for the collimation! Probably because of the tight tolerances combined with the natural limits in manufacturing precision.

Thanks a lot, Paul! 🙂 Hyperstar is very sensitive collimation and back focus wise but that holds true for every f/2 system after all. I used the Hotech Laser Colimator for Hyperstar to adjust it and that really helped a lot. Since I secured the set screws with a bit of loctite it’s pretty stable.

Yes, north is to the right side of the frame. The camera was at 90 degrees which is my standard setup. You can see the orientation on my AstroBin, I just posted it over there.

Thank you so much, Julien! 😊
I think it isn’t imaged very often but it really deserves it! It’s a beautiful object.

VdB 14 and VdB 15 are a pair of beautiful reflection nebulae in the constellation Camelopardalis. They are about 2600 light years away from Earth.

VdB 14 and VdB 15 captured from my dark site in southern France end of September 🇫🇷 😊🔭

This was shot on the EdgeHD 8 with Hyperstar for a total integration time of about 5.5 hours using an OSC cam with just the UV/IR-Cut filter.

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