Maurice Toet
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📷 Astrophotographer from the Netherlands 🔭
Zoetermeer, Nederland
Joined October 2020
Amateur Astronomer’s Starter Pack: .- Nerd shirt ✅.- Cargo pants ✅.- Sandals ✅.- Goat-wool socks ❌ (too warm).- Expensive telescope rig ✅.- Losing track of time while observing ✅.- Looking up when exiting a building ✅. First light with the @baader_astro Herschel Wedge.
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Exactly 19 years after the total solar #eclipse I observed in Libya, a partial solar eclipse was visible in the Netherlands today. Fortunately, it was clear around the maximum to capture an image @govertschilling @helgavanleur @nos @RTLnieuws
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A dive into an ocean of hydrogen clouds: the well-known area around the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Hα only.
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This one never gets old… The Horsehead Nebula in Orion. Automated sequence running with the ZWO ASIair Pro + 📷 ASI2600MM Pro + 🔭 Takahashi ε-180ED @ 500 mm f/2.8 + 🔴 Baader Planetarium Hα f/3 Ultra-Highspeed filter (3.5nm).
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Dusted off this 11-year-old image of Orion's Belt which was shortlisted in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 competition by the Royal Observatory at Royal Museums Greenwich.
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Saturn, 3 minutes prior to #lunar #occultation. Unfortunately it was too cloudy to witness the egress (third contact) of #Saturn on the lit side of the #moon.
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Beautiful #conjunction of #Venus and the #Moon this evening. Tomorrow evening, #Saturn will be occulted by the Moon. Fingers crossed for clear skies.
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The end of 2024 is near, so here's an overview of astronomy activities and sightings I was happy to witness and observe:.- P12/Pons-Brooks.- Spectacular Aurora displays.- C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS .- Attending the starparties in Wateren & Grandpré.- My yearly visit to Étoile
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There's a lot to see in this image. Please have a look at it in full resolution on my website or on AstroBin.
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Le pièce de résistance of a week of #Astrophotography in Étoile-Saint-Cyrice: a two pane mosaic of the wonderful field around colourful NGC 1333 (part of the Perseus OB2 molecular cloud), which contains VdB 12, 13, 16 & 17 (as well as Barnard 1 and Barnard 202 to 206.
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The Epsilon-180ED tracks the sky while running an imaging sequence. If you look closely at the background of the time-lapse, you can see that there was a lot of air glow in the second half of the night (green structures moving around).
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Another beautiful, colourful dawn in Étoile-Saint-Cyrice with a very old moon (one day before new moon) just above the hills.
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Misty morning in Étoile. These photographs capture what's key for me in astronomy: being outside in the depths of night where the silence is broken only by the voice of an owl. In the image with Orion in the sky, the mist in the valley is lit from above by the crescent moon.
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LBN 777, Vulture Head Nebula a.k.a. Baby Eagle Nebula. First Luminance-Red-Green-Blue Deep Sky image from my home in De Kiel.
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Special thanks to Arbreours for the felling and digging work and to former colleague Rob de Jong for helping to put the observatory together.
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Work in progress. Construction of the GreenlineR/O roll-off observatory designed and delivered by DOME PARTS GmbH. This is the second MEDIUM-32 observatory I built. The previous version was left in the garden of my former home in Zoetermeer.
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Setting up the astronomy equipment at the start of the starparty weekend in Wateren.
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The early bird catches the worm, or as we say in Dutch 'De morgenstond heeft goud in de mond' [The dawn has gold in its mouth].
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