Only a mere minority, related to the overwhelming number of stars in the universe, is closer to earth than some 100 light-years. The light from almost all stars, that we capture in deep sky astrophotography was sent out hundreds, thousands or even millions of year ago. Looking into the night sky means looking into the past. The most distant objects, we can see with the unaided eye in a clear dark night, are the Andromeda-Galaxy and the Triangulum-Galaxy, both belonging to the local group, being nearest neighbours of the milkyway. But their light was sent out 2,8 million years in the past, long before homo erectus, an extinct species of archaic human, raised its head on earth. That are the distances we face in space. With modern cameras, amateurs can catch light, that spent hundreds of million years on its travel to earth, and todays observatorys look even back to the beginning of the universe, when the very first stars were born. All that we capture with our cameras in deep sky astrophotography is ancient light...

This website presents deep sky images I made during the last years, mainly with low budget equipment. Most pictures, up to now, were taken using telephoto lenses and astro-modified DSLR's. Only recently I have added a Takahashi Epsilon16 and a ASI2600MM to my equipment.

For whatever reason you came across this site, I hope you will enjoy your visit.