Hello,
I am new member of astrobin since yesterday.
My name is Jürgen, I am born in 1953, married since 1980 (still the same today ), have two sons 39 and 42 years old. Since abt 10 years I am retired.
From 1971 to abt 2000, I was very active as DL8OBU Radio-Amateur. 2004 I finished activity there and joined the magic circle of Germany, was a magician until 2018 and than bought my first telescope.
I live in Germany near the City of Hannover in a small village. I started astrophotography in 2020 with a very old and used C8 and a Canon EOS1100D. From 2022 to 2024 I worked with a 102mm TS Photoline and a ASI533MC-Pro and a TS 80mm Triplet-APO, begann to use NINA in 2023 and for Preprocessing PixinSight since Nov 2024.
My home location is in the garden behind our house. One time in the year (in Autumn) we travel to Fehmarn, a small island in the Baltic Sea, for 2 weeks, where I take a telescope with me to enjoy that pretty dark sky there. One time in the year, we travel for about 2 weeks to the Lake Constance at the boarder of Germany in the south. Here it is also much better sky than at my homelocation. Not every year, the weather is really good, so I am lucky, when I have 2 or three days in that 2 weeks, where I can make pictures in astrophotograpy.
Actually I am using these telescopes:
TS APO 106 700mm F6,6, with Reducer 0,75x 525mm F/4,95
Askar 103mm 700mm F6,8 , with Reducer 0,6× 420mm F/4,1
TS APO 80mm Triplet 480mm F/6, with Reducer 0,8x 384mm F/4,8
61EDPH 61mm 6-Element Flatfield APO 274mm F/4,5
102mm TS Photoline F/7 with Baader D-ERF and Daystar Quark Prominence for Sun
Mewlon 180C (for moon and planets only)
For the Mewlon, the 106mm and the 102mm Solarscope I use the HEM44 from iOptron
for the 80mm APO and the 61EDPH I use the HEM27A (this is also, what I take with me in holidays
CS
Jürgen
