Welcome

Welcome to my non-commercial Homepage. I am an Amateur Astrophotographer, living and imaging from the Black Forest, Germany. I have started visual astronomy about 20 years ago, nowadays I am mainly interested in taking images from Deep-Space Objects. On this page I would like to share my experiences and encourage exchange among us astrophotographers. Below you will find my gallery and the guestbook. Please post any comments or questions there.

A star tracker as the main mount? A heavy payload test of the Skywatcher Star Adventurer gti

NGC 2264: The Christmas Tree Cluster and some improvements to the ZWO AM5 mount

First attemp with a Mono-Astronomy-Camera: What results can you expect?

An interesting test of an affordable alternative to the Celestron 0.7x Reducer for an EdgeHd

Here I want to share my experiences of an affordable alternative for reducing the focal length and the f-ratio of an corrected SC-Telescope (Celestron EdgeHd, Meade ACF...).

Spoiler: It works surprisingly good

A really heavy payload test of the new ZWO AM3

What is possible with a MONO Camera in one night? IC 443 and NGC 2174

A truly independent test of the ZWO AM5 mount

Imaging with a Color-Camera under heavy light pollution with a "Nebula-Booster" Filter

In this short review I want to share my experiences with the Hutech IDAS NB1 Filter using my f/2 RASA8 Telescope and a One-Shot-Color-Camera under heavy light pollution