Bernd Flachsbart

Regular lender on @Kiva | Favourite place on earth: Vaucluse, France 🇫🇷 | Thumbs up: Road cycling 🚴‍♀️ Hard & heavy music 🤘 Astrophotography 🔭✨

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

NGC 3344 - The Sliced Onion Galaxy captured from my patio on seven nights this month 😊🔭

It was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of about 46 hours in LRGB and Ha to reveal the star forming regions.

#Astrophotography

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

Breakfast for Bumpy.

He's one of our newest orphans, at our Kaluku Neonate Unit in Tsavo. His mother was killed – likely defending him in a territorial fight – and he spent at least a day alone beside her before the Kenya Wildlife Service brought him in.

He's a baby hippo. Hippos start their lives in water and learn to nurse beneath the surface, diving and resurfacing for breath between sips. Bumpy's bottle feeds are easier – no diving required.

He has a long road ahead. Adopting Bumpy helps fund his milk, his Keepers, and the years of care between now and his return to the wild.

Adopt Bumpy: https://t.co/qAEjrv65WE

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@GAIAAENEAS That’s a beautiful landscape 😍

[Munich & Porto Memories ⭐️⭐️🇺🇦🔭🏁 @SkidKidd]

The "Pillars of Creation" are three colossal, tower-like clouds of interstellar gas and dust located about 6,500 to 7,000 light-years from Earth in the center of the Eagle Nebula (M16). Named for highly active "stellar nurseries" where dense pockets of gas collapse to form stars.

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@SkidKidd Fantastic details, crisp and beautiful! 🤩

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@GAIAAENEAS Très jolie 😍

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@GAIAAENEAS Yes please! 😋

[Munich & Porto Memories ⭐️⭐️🇺🇦🔭🏁 @SkidKidd]

NGC 6188 The Fighting Dragons of ARA or the Firebird Nebula is an emission nebula located ~4000 light years from Earth in the constellation ARA.
This is ~30 hours of 180 sec exposures using Ha-OIII & SII-OIII 7nm Svbony sv220 filters using the Hubble SHO colour palette.
#astro

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@SkidKidd Amazing work, Simon! 🤩 Sadly this beautiful target is out of reach for me.

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@GAIAAENEAS That would be great! We could go hiking in the Provence together 🤗☀️🇫🇷

[NebulaPhotos @NebulaPhotos]

The Large Magellanic Cloud. Captured last week in Chile 🇨🇱. #astrophotography

[NebulaPhotos @NebulaPhotos]

Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, Close and Wide
#astrophotography

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@NebulaPhotos Amazing images 🤩👏

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@GAIAAENEAS That’s totally normal and a great start into the weekend 😅🤗

[Munich & Porto Memories ⭐️⭐️🇺🇦🔭🏁 @SkidKidd]

This is the Prawn Nebula, also known as IC 4628. Its an emission nebula located in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way, around 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. (wik)
This is 5 hrs of HaOIII & SIIOIII data using Svbony sv220 dual 7nm filters.
#astro

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@SkidKidd Great work, Simon! Very nice colours and composition 🤩

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@SkidKidd Thank you so much, Simon! ☺️

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

NGC 4631 & NGC 4656/7
- The Whale Galaxy and Hockey Stick Galaxy captured last month from my dark site in southern France 🇫🇷😊🔭

This was shot on the EdgeHD 8 with Hyperstar at f/2 for a total integration time of 4 hours using a QHY183C cam without any filter.

#Astrophotography

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@GAIAAENEAS Dancing like a fairy in the meadows🧚‍♀️🌼🤗

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@SkidKidd Thanks a lot, Simon! 🙂

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

NGC 4244 - The Silver Needle Galaxy captured from my patio on three nights in April 😊🔭

It was shot on the EdgeHD 8 for a total integration time of about 12 hours in LRGB using a QHY294M cam.

#Astrophotography

[Bernd Flachsbart @BFlachsbart]

@GAIAAENEAS omg it somehow escaped me. I’m so sorry to hear this and glad you’re okay again ❤️