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Maurice Toet

@mauricetoet.bsky.social
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Astrophotographer from the Netherlands

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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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 2” Cool-Ceramic Safety Herschel Prism Mark II
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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.
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Sunrise last Saturday at national park Drents-Friese Wold.
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Sh2-149 & Sh2-148 (IC 443), Jellyfish Nebula | Hα www.mauricetoet.nl/DeepSky/i-HT...
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The sun just set and the camera is cooling down for a night of deep sky imaging. #astronomy #astrophotography #deepsky
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NGC 2264, Christmas Tree Cluster & Surrounding Field www.mauricetoet.nl/DeepSky/i-pW...
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.mauricetoet.nl/DeepSky/i-4v... #astrophotography #horseheadnebula #orion #astronomy
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B33, Horsehead Nebula | Hα-LRGB
Integration time: 15 hours (60x 300" Hα, 36x 300" L, 24x 300" R, 24x 300" G, 36x 300" B) | Optics: Takahashi ε-180ED f/2.8 | Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro (B 1x1, G 100, T -10 °C) | Acquisition: ZWO ASIai...
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A dive into an ocean of hydrogen clouds: the well-known area around the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Hα only www.mauricetoet.nl/DeepSky/i-CP...

Integration time: 5 hours (60x 300" Hα) | Optics: Takahashi ε-180ED f/2.8 | Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro (B 1x1, G 100, T -10 °C) | Acquisition: ZWO ASIair Pro | Filter: Baader Planetarium Ultra-Highspeed Hα 3.5nm | Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO | Location: De Kiel, Netherlands | SQM: 21.0 magn/arcsec² | Date: 16 & 17 February 2025 | Processing: Astro Pixel Processor (data reduction), PixInsight (GradientCorrection, RC Astro's BlurXTerminator), Adobe Photoshop (post processing, RC Astro's NoiseXTerminator)
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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.
Captured with a Baader modified Canon 5D Mark II (ISO 1600) DSLR and a Takahashi Epsilon-180ED (500 mm f/2.8) on an Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO mount under a 21.5 magnitude/arcsec² sky in Étoile-Saint-Cyrice (Hautes-Alpes, France) on 25 & 27 March 2014. It's a two pane mosaic with a total integration time of 1 hour and 35 minutes.
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
NGC 2170, the Angel Nebula in Monoceros A bit noisy due to lack of exposure time on this tenuous object in Monoceros. I decided to process the data, as I most probably have to wait for moonless, clear nights next winter to continue on this object. www.mauricetoet.nl/DeepSky/i-x3...
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Beautiful clear skies, finally ✨
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Beautiful clear skies, finally ✨
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Ready for #deepsky #imaging again. Today I installed the #Takahashi ε-180ED in tandem with the FS-60 on the AP Mach1 in the observatory. The AP 130 #StarFire GTX sits back on the AP 600E mount in 'portable-setup-mode' for visual use and solar imaging.
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Misty winter day @ Sleenerzand forest
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In 2020 I built my first GreenLine roll-off roof observatory in my back garden in Zoetermeer. This prefabricated observatory is made by Dome Parts GmbH. After moving to De Kiel in 2024, I started building another one. Progress photos of the second observatory can be seen here.
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Roll-off Roof Observatory 2.0 - Maurice Toet
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
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.
Captured with a Nikon D810a in prime focus of an Astro-Physics 130 mm f/6.3 StarFire GTX "Gran Turismo" Triplet Apochromat (F = 819 mm, 1/15 seconds @ ISO 1000).
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The end of 2024 is near, so here's an overview of astronomy activities and sightings I was happy to witness and observe: - Comet P12/Pons-Brooks - Spectacular Aurora displays - Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS - Attending the starparties in Wateren & Grandpré - My yearly visit to Olly in Étoile
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My main imaging setup going strong for ± 12 yrs: Takahashi ε-180ED + Astro-Physics Mach1. Here in combination with a Nikon D810a.
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Throwback time. While browsing through some old pics, I found some captured with my first CCD camera: a QHY8. Not the greatest camera, but a giant leap in sensitivity compared to analogue (film) astrophotography. Here it is attached in prime focus of a Takahashi FSQ-106ED mounted on a Losmandy GM-8.
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Maurice Toet @mauricetoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
'Le pièce de résistance' of a week of #astrophotography in Étoile-Saint-Cyrice: a two pane mosaic of the wonderful field around colourful #NGC1333, which contains Van den Bergh 12, 13, 16 & 17 (right next to NGC 1333) as well as #Barnard 1 and Barnard 202 to 206.
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