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A few images from life events and astronomy.

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Observatory dome at the Leibniz Institute of Astrophysics (AIP). This building now serves as the Library (Bibliothek). But, just look at how big the dome is!

Observation evening at the OST 2.0. The OST is based at University of Potsdam. The OST 2.0 is a Corrected Dall-Kirkham (CDK) with a diameter of 508mm and a focal length of 3454 mm.

Mars

Data source: Mangalyaan Archive.
I did nothing special to this data, it was only contrast and brightness corrected, to look “Beautiful”. The data was sourced from the Indian Mars orbiter named “Mangalyaan”

Data source: Mangalyaan Archive. I did nothing special to this data, it was only contrast and brightness corrected, to look “Beautiful”. The data was sourced from the Indian Mars orbiter named “Mangalyaan”

Pillars of creation

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Stacked image of the ring nebula.

Data source: Hubble archive. Image was added with false colour and stacked using the following scheme:

  • f673n = Red
  • f657n = Green
  • f502n = Blue

Ring Nebula

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f658n-N-Red
f673n-S-Red
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Stacked image of the ring nebula.

Data source: Hubble archive. Image was added with false colour and stacked using the following scheme:

  • f673n = Near Red
  • f658n = Red
  • f656n = Cyan
  • f502n = Cyan
  • f469n = Blue

Lagoon Nebula

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Stacked image of the Lagoon Nebula.

Data source: Hubble archive. Image was added with false colour and stacked using the following scheme:

  • f673n = Red
  • f656n = Green
  • f502n = Blue

The Moon

Telescope: Bresser Newtonian 76/700 | Camera: Mi A1

Eclipse

Telescope: Bresser Newtonian 76/700 | Camera: Mi A1

Group photo in front of telescope dome at the St. Joseph University, Bangalore. The year is probably 2015. The dome houses a Messer 8″ Schmidt-Cassegrain which can be used with a Messer monochrome ccd with colour filters for images.Photo description (right to left): Desmond, Satish, Balaji, (unknown), Vishal, (unknown), Govardhan, (unknown)

Visit to ISRO’s launch center. The year is probably 2014/15. All launch vehicles produced by ISRO is launched from here. Sadly we could not take photos of the launch pad, Mission control center, and the communication center as they also operate defence satellites, so no cameras allowed inside. Since photos could not be taken of the building, we took one on the road!

Photo description (right to left): Chetan, Desmond, Madhusudan, Anganba (behind Madhusudan), Archana, Yashas and Meena

Visit to ISRO’s satellite center. The year is probably 2014/15. Satellites, landers and rovers produced by ISRO are assembled and tested here. This included Defence satellites, so no cameras allowed inside.

Photo description (right to left): Desmond, Anganba and Chetan

The data was sourced form “astrobackyard”. Contrast and brightness corrected for astrophotography practice.

The data was sourced form “astrobackyard”. SHO filters were the original data. I contrast and brightness corrected (or massaged) the data and assigned a false colour based of SHO -> RGB scheme.

The data was sourced form “astrobackyard”. Contrast and brightness corrected for astrophotography practice.