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SkyAboveCopenhagen
Henrik Mortensen
Oct 302 min read
You have to see it to believe it
Colorful emissions and dusty lanes, its all over our Milky Way, our own Galaxy. Its time to put the filters on the camera and point the...
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Henrik Mortensen
Oct 292 min read
The perfect time-machine…
How far back in time is it possible to see? Well, in theory a super telescope could see 46,5 Billion light years away in any direction...
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Henrik Mortensen
Oct 281 min read
Lord of the rings...
Saturn with its spectacular rings, which consists of ice and rocks. This Giant has its own world with 146 moons orbiting the planet and...
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Henrik Mortensen
Oct 282 min read
Same old face…
…the one that You never get tired of looking at, but how come that we never get to see the flip-side of the Moon? Sure enough, the Moon...
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Henrik Mortensen
Oct 261 min read
Dark matters.....
I have added a dark outpost to my normal city-astrophotography spot, its well situated away from the light polluted city of Copenhagen. I...
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Henrik Mortensen
May 301 min read
Summer is here..
What a catch! Then sunflower galaxy M63 or NGC 5055 in the constellation Canes Venatic, 27 million light years away. It appears majestic...
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Henrik Mortensen
Mar 311 min read
Needles and Pins, spring-time is here...
Needle galaxy, NGC 4565 or C 38, is a spiral galaxy aprox. 30-50 million light years away. The galaxy is facing Earth from it's...
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Henrik Mortensen
Jan 151 min read
Have I seen You before?...
Yes I definitely have! These galaxies are among my favourite ones, they are easy to catch and absolutely impressive... M101 Pinwheel...
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Henrik Mortensen
Jan 151 min read
New bottle old wine.....
The Andromeda galaxy M31, along with the galaxies M32 and M110, approx. 2.9 million LY from Earth.(January 6. 2024)
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Henrik Mortensen
Jan 141 min read
"It's getting better all the time"...
2024, a new year and time for new adventures pointing at the night sky above "the new King's" Copenhagen. Slowly upgrading my equipment...
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Henrik Mortensen
Jun 1, 20231 min read
The BIG boom...
In May 2023 a special event took place in the galaxy M101. A giant star located in the outer spiral arm of this galaxy, exploded as a...
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Henrik Mortensen
May 3, 20231 min read
Push it to the limit...
Ring nebula M57 up close
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Henrik Mortensen
Apr 24, 20231 min read
Easter egg's and a lot more...
April month, fair weather and clear skies at last. Galaxy season, but also time to zoom in on a few interesting nebulae. Skywatcher...
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Henrik Mortensen
Apr 15, 20231 min read
She is more than hot......
Venus our sister planet April 2.th 2023, with its sulfuric acid atmosphere and high surface pressure. This cloudy thick atmosphere is...
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Henrik Mortensen
Mar 3, 20231 min read
Jellyfish Nebula C 443...what a fish
I caught this fish recently in the constellation Gemini, 5000 light years from earth. This beautiful nebula is likely an old supernova...
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Henrik Mortensen
Feb 28, 20231 min read
What a weekend........
Almost three months has passed with terrible weather in Copenhagen, but then at last, clear skies and calm wind:-) I managed to "shoot"...
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Henrik Mortensen
Feb 12, 20231 min read
The Seven Sisters.....
The open star cluster The Pleiades (M45 or the Seven Sisters)is approximately 444 light-years from the Earth.
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Henrik Mortensen
Feb 12, 20231 min read
The Comet is here......
And soon it will be gone( for the next 50.000 years) I managed to photograph Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF. The picture is shot taking only a...
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Henrik Mortensen
Jan 25, 20231 min read
Mars the red planet......
Right now Mars is closest to Earth (aprox.. 80 million km). .....
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