Heiko Wilkens - Astroimages

Saturn

Time of exposure: 19. March 2006

Used equipment: 250mm DK-Cassegrain f/12

Eyepiece projection 3,8x f/46

Lumenera Lu075M camera

Mars

Time of exposure: 15. October 2005

Used equipment: 250mm DK-Cassegrain f/12

Eyepiece projection 4,4x f/53

Lumenera Lu075M camera

Publication: Anarcortes Telescope and Wild Bird
2. November 2005 – Photo of the Day

Sun

Time of exposure: 3. Juli 2005

Used equipment 90mm Refractor f/5,6

for mosaic: 1,6x Barlow

Lumenera Lu075M camera

Used equipment 250mm DK-Cassegrain f/12

for details: 2x Barlow

Lumenera Lu075M camera

M13

This is a DSO picture taken with my planetary camera. I tested a just for fun implemented long exposure feature of my own coded capture software for this camera. The camera is not designed for DSO imaging, it has a very narrow field and it has no cooling feature at all. These things in mind I was really surprised by the resulting picture of M13.

Thanks to R Jay GaBani !!! Jay authorizes me to use the color channels from his wonderful M13 picture to colorize my b/w picture.

Time of exposure: 28. May 2005

Used equipment: 250mm DK-Cassegrain f/12

0,5x Reducer (a cheap one)

Lumenera Lu075M camera for luminance

RGB channels from a picture taken by R Jay GaBani

Sunspot 756

This is the First Light for my new planetary camera and my own coded capture software. The conditions during capturing this picture were quite bad. It was very windy and the seeing was bad.

Time of exposure: 30. April 2005

Used equipment: 250mm DK-Cassegrain f/12

Full aperture astro solar sun filter

Lumenera Lu075M camera for luminance

Green filter

Saturn

I am very happy about this picture. I captured the frames in the night of opposition. The seeing was very good, the best conditions I ever had. Visually I thought I looked through the Hubble space telescope – incredible!

Time of exposure: 14. January 2005

Used equipment: 250mm DK-Cassegrain f/12

2x Barlow used at 3x

Philips ToUCam (webcam)

M57

My lucky Jupiter shot from April this year fired me to be more serious in my planetary work. To be prepared for the next planet season I decided to evaluate some different planetary camera designs (modified webcams as well as professional cameras for industrial and scientific purpose). During my first evaluating session in Summer 2004 no planets where well placed in the sky. So I took some pictures from bright DSO’s. Here is an example of M57.

Time of exposure: 4. August 2004

Used equipment: 250mm DK-Cassegrain f/12

0,5x Reducer

ATK 2HS camera for luminance

Lumenera Lu075C camera for color channels

Moon

This mosaic picture is the result of a lazy astronomy summer night. I sit in my favorite arm chair in my garden, watched the moon, listened to the hedgehogs and enjoyed a bottle of the great 1996 Rioja Finca Valpiedra.

Time of exposure: 26. June 2004

Used equipment: 90mm refractor f/5.6

1,6x Barlow

Philips ToUCam

Venustransit am 8. Juni 2004
- Venus vor der Sonne -