Astropix - Astrophotography
Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught)

- Main Page

- Astrophotography 
  My Astro Images
 

- Astro: Roll your own!
  Astro sketching board

  Balancing weight system

My Equipment

- Astro picture of the day
- Nasa
- Astronomy Now

Some usefull links...
- Time sync your PC in SA
- Celestron
- Nexstar Resource Site
- The Sky 6
- Skytools2
- Deepsky Planner 4
- ImagesPlus
- Stark Labs
- Shoestring Astronomy
- AIP4Win
- Ascom Drivers

Weather
- SA Weather - Botha
- Cloud cover - SA Botha
- SA Weather Service
- Cloudspotting 

Forum
- Yahoo  Forum

My Blog
- Astropix in Bloemfontein

Astro mags
- Astrophoto Insight
- Sky and Telescope
- US - Astronomy

Down South
- ASSA
- Psyychohistorian
- Ausie amateur Astro
- Starizona

Photography
- Igno: Adobe Blog
- Lightroom 2 tutorials
- Free photography course

 

 

 

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Astrophotography is my hobby. I took it up after a left a 23 year career as newspaper photographer in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The equipment I use consists of a Celestron 11 GPS and Canon 30D.

Partial Eclipse in Bloemfontein, South Africa on 26 January 2009.
Read more... 		Partial Solar Eclipse
72-hour numerical weather forecasts for astronomical purpose, include cloud cover, seeing, transparency, darkness, and near-ground meteorological conditions - Bloemfontein area
Animation of the partial eclipse on 26 January 2009 eclipse

1 December, 2009 (07:50) The moon in a very close grouping
with Venus (top left) and Jupiter (bottom right). Read more
Improve your Lunar images with High Pass filter in Photoshop
C/2008 A1 (McNaught) C/2008_A1 (McNaught)
Iridium 65 in the Bloemfontein sky
The Partial Eclipse seen from Boyden Observatory - Bloemfontein
My Astro images

Roll your own: A Sketching pad to die for.

Roll your own: Balancing grip and weights

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Images from my previous life as Newspaper photographer Kgalagadi