The latest astrophoto
…TO THE UNIVERSE AS SEEN THROUGH MY CAMERA
Welcome to my astrophoto site. Through these pages, I hope to be able to inspire people to start imaging our beautiful night sky. With the right processing techniques and some patience you don’t have to travel far or use ultra-expensive equipment to discover the heavens as some of my images hopefully show.Latest astrophotos:
Most photos on this site were taken from home backyard in Borås, Sweden, which is located in an orange zone (class 5) on the Bortle dark-sky scale. For my images I am currently using an ASI 2600MM Pro dedicated astro-camera (but have mostly been using an ASI 1600MM Pro camera) together with either a SkyWatcher Esprit 80ED f/5 triplet refractor telescope or a TS-Optics 8" f/4 UNC Newtonian reflector telescope attached to a Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount. For autoguiding I use an ASI 120MM Mini camera with an off-axis guider (OAG).
The camera is computer-controlled with N.I.N.A or Sequence Generator Pro and I mainly use PixInsight together with the software from RC Astro and Adobe Photoshop or Affinity Photo for image processing, while Stellarium is used for planning the photo sessions.
I am also using the Margareta Westlund Telescope, a remote controlled PlaneWave CDK 17 432mm f/6.8 telescope on a Paramount ME mount equipped with a ASI6200MM Pro camera provided to the members of SAAF and hosted by IC Astronomy in Oria, Spain.
Thanks for looking and wish you all clear skies,
Peter Folkesson
Current weather forecast for Borås:
My images (and data about them) are also available at the eminent site AstroBin.