Chamäleon- Onjala und Rooisand Observatory   German      Home      back to the News On this page we show an overview of our DeepSky imaging, which we have taken at above named observatories in Namibia. Most of the images was taken between the years 2013 and 2016. A small number of images was taken at Rooisand Observatory between the years 2004 and 2011. These images are marked with a little red square All imgaes will be open in a seperate browser window, just click the thumbnail to load a higher resolution image. Also image data can be seen. The following telescopes was used for image acquisition:

TEC 110mm - f/5.6 Zeiss APQ 130mm - f/7.7 Astro Physics EDFS 130mm - f/6 Zeiss APQ 150mm - f/8 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph - f/6.8 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph - f/6.8 Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2 Celestron C 14 - f/11

Partly we was using focal reducers and/or lenses for field flattening. For image acquisition we was using several Canon EOS DSLR cameras (normal and astro modified/cooled) and CCD modules from SBIG and QHY. The images above show from left to right: Onjala,- Chamäleon- und Rooisand Observatory.

Images are sorted by the following classes

Open- and Globular Clusters Emissions and Reflection Nebulae Dark Nebulae Planetary Nebulae Galaxies Cometary Globules Comets, Widedield Images and special stars

Open Cluster

NGC 4755 Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 4755 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph Zeta Scorpei + NGC 6231 Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 6383 and Tr 28 Zeiss APQ 150mm

NGC 6025 Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2 NGC 3293 Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 3532 Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 46 + NGC 2438 Zeiss APQ 150mm

Messier 6 150mm Zeiss APQ Mosaic - Messier 6, NGC 6383, Tr 28 Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 7 Zeiss APQ 130mm Mosaic - M 7 till NGC 6444 Zeiss APQ 150mm

Messier M 47 AP 130mm EDF-S Messier M 46 AP 130mm EDF-S Messier 41 AP 130mm EDF-S Mosaic M 46 + NGC 2438 and M 47, AP 130mm EDF-S

IC 2602 AP 130mm EDF-S NGC 2516 AP 130mm EDF-S NGC 6530 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph NGC 6520 + Barnard 86 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph

Messier 44 AP 130mm EDF-S NGC 6193 12.5" PlaneWave Astrograph Messier 6 AP 130mm EDF-S top of page

Globular Cluster

NGC 104 - 47 Tuc PlaneWave 17" Astrograph NGC 5139 - Omega Centauri Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 5139 - Omega Centauri PlaneWave 17" Astrograph NGC 288 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph

Messier 11 Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 6441 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph Messier 69 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph Messier 55 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph

NGC 6352 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph NGC 5139 - Omega Centauri PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph Messier 75 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph NGC 6397 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph

Emission- and Reflection Nebulae

NGC 3372 TEC 110mm NGC 3372, southern part  Mosaic, Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 3372, northern part Zeiss APQ 150mm Eta Carina, Tr 14, Tr 16, Collinder 232 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph

Eta Carina, Tr 16  Celestron C 14 NGC 3372, NGC 3324, NGC 3293  Mosaic, Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 3324, NGC 3293  Mosaic, Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 3324, NGC 3293 TEC 110mm

NGC 3324, NGC 3293  Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 3324 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph Messier 17 Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 16 150mm Zeiss APQ

NGC 6334 AP 130mm EDFS IC 2948, IC 2944  Zeiss APQ 150mm IC 2944 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph NGC 1977 150mm Zeiss APQ

Messier 42, Messier 43  Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 43, central region PlaneWave 17" Astrograph Messier 8  Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 8 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph

Messier, Hourglass Nebula  Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 20, Messier 21 Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 20 Zeiss APQ 130mm NGC 6723, 6726, 2727 Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2

NGC 6723, 6726, 2727 Zeiss APQ 130mm IC 2118  Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 6559, IC 4685, IC 4687  Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 6193, NGC 6188  150mm Zeiss APQ

NGC 6193, NGC 6188, NGC 6164/65  Mosaic, Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 2070 TEC 110mm NGC 2070  Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 2070, 30 Doradus PlaneWave 17" Astrograph

NGC 2070  Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 395, NGC 346, SMC Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2 NGC 395, NGC 346, SMC AP 130mm EDFS NGC 6726, NGC 6727 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph

IC 2944 AP 130mm EDFS NGC 3603 + NGC 3576 AP 130mm EDFS NGC 3603 + NGC 3576 Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2 M 20 Trifidnebel 17" PlaneWave Astrograph

IC 2944/2948 Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2 M 8 Lagoo nebula 12.5" PlaneWave Astrograph NGC 6188 and NGC 6193 12.5" PlaneWave Astrograph NGC 3603 + NGC 3576 6" Zeiss APQ - Narrowband

IC 2944/2948 4" Pentax Refraktor - Narrowband NGC 6188 and NGC 6193 4" Pentax Refraktor - Narrowband top of page

Dark Nebulae

NGC 6723, 6726, 2727 Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2 Barnard 86 + NGC 6520 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph Barnard 228 100mm telephoto lens Corona Borealis complex of dark clouds DCld359.9-17.9

Planetary Nebulae

NGC 7293 Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2 NGC 246 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph NGC 6164, NGC 6165  Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 6164, NGC 6165 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph

NGC 6302 Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 46 + NGC 2438  Zeiss APQ 150mm Messier 27  Zeiss APQ 150mm NGC 2438 AP 130mm EDF-S

M 27 - the Dumbell Nebula 12.5" PlaneWave Astrograph NGC 6781 12.5"+17" PlaneWave Astrograph NGC 7009 - the Saturn nebula PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph NGC 6302 - the Bug nebula PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph

NGC 6369 - the little ghost 12.5" PlaneWave Astrograph top of page

Galaxies

ESO 56-115 Large Magellanic Cloud f = 100mm NGC 253 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph NGC 6822 PlaneWave 17" Astrograph

Cometary Globules

Kometare Globule CG 4 Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2 Kometare Globule kometare Globule DCld 343.0+2.8 (the dark tower) Celestron 11 Hyperstar - f/2

Comets + Widedield Images

Comet Siding Spring (C/2013A1) passing Mars Zeiss APQ 150mm Comet Panstarrs C/2014Q1 TEC 110mm Constellation Big Dipper f = 33mm Nova Carinae 2018 PlaneWave 12.5" Astrograph

Large and small Magellanic Cloud f = 33mm Lambda Centauri till Eta Carinae f = 100mm The Antares Region f = 100mm Constellation Orion f = 100mm

Center of our Milky Way f = 13mm Milky Way, Mosaic f = 13mm Milky Way withAirglow f = 24mm top of page

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