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Scenic
Landscape, Atmospheric Phenomena and Moonlight Imaging |
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Above:
Mercury and the Onjala 3m dome, taken
at nearly full moon at the 4th August
« Left: 2 days old moon with
Mercury and Regulus at the 27th July,
taken with 200mm in late
dawn
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Milky way and Zodiacal light (Onjala) |
Milky way and Zodiacal light (Onjala) |
Milky way above our portable mount (Onjala) |
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The green scattered light is emitting by the capital Windhoek
and from the international airport |
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Milky way and Zodiacal light in late twilight (Rooisand) |
Milky way with the Magelanic clouds (Rooisand) |
Milky way at moon light (Rooisand) |
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Photo
session at the camel thorn tree
» right: camel thorn tree with
twilight, Zodiacal light, Jupiter and
a meteor |
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3m dome at sunset |
Our
portable telescops with the CGEM
mount |
Test
of a new Pentax M1 camera |
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M8 + M20, 200mm Tele with Fuji M1 |
Eta Carina, 105mm Pentax with Fuji M1 |
SMC, 105mm Pentax with Fuji M1 |
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each 12 x 300 seconds at ISO 1.000 |
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Miscellaneous |
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Assistance for a team of 22 Chinese TV staff for a StarGazing live broadcast direct to China from Rooisand
Observatory |
The
TV cameras |
LIVE
? Problematicaly - because no WLAN at
Rooisand |
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Installation of a live
connection to China |
Logistic - food and beverages ... |
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and a tent "city" for the night |
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Chamäleopn house get it own house number ... |
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number 27 |
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and the Chamäleon team a "new"
(used) car |
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The Toyota Land Cruiser Prado at the camel thorn tree ... |
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and in front of the 4m Onjala dome |
Workplace at the CGEM mount |
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This happens if one places at a wrong place |
a
cable tie |
Our
cooled EOS 700 DA at focus at the
Pentax scope ... |
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... the mirror of the EOS 700 DA after a second of direct sunlight |
Flatfiel Imgaing with the Pentax with the EOS 700 DA |
In
July we had to do a lot of maitenance
at the 3m dome |
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Franz at work |
we
had to change the side wheels of the
shutter |
Sealing work |
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Installation of a new floor, now is telescope operation possible without any laddar |
a
new workplace for laptop operation |
wiring of the dome electric ... |
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... also the wiring for the
telescope operation ... |
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complete new light installation ... |
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and a new 80mm finderr/Guider for the
portable telescopes |
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As well as the 4m dome was a lot to do |
Sealing ... |
Adjustment of the shutter |
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also the installation of a new light control |
Replacement of the end switch "Shutter down" |
Replacement of the end switch "Shutter down" |
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and what else ? |
Of
course playing soccer ... |
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and some times time for a game drive |
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Our dome-gecko warm himself at a cold night on a small power supply... |
... and his friends at daytime in the hot sun |
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