About Vincent

Hello dear Astro Pixel Processor users,

My name is Vincent Groenewold. I’m a 43 year old ex-scientist in proteomics, with a great love for science in general and astrophysics in particular. This resulted in a far overdue start in the astrophotography hobby back in 2015.

Since then I advanced quickly from starting with the wrong gear and desktop computer in the cold garden, to a fully remote controlled system with my favorite telescope controlled from inside my house at the end of that same year. I also started to learn all about the software needed to both take the pictures and post-process them. With the release of Astro Pixel Processor (APP) I was suddenly doing mosaics like it was nothing and learned more about the scientific backgrounds to calibration, normalization etc. I am loving every bit of it, a perfect combination of all the things I like.

The Pleiades, M45 by Vincent Groenewold – LRGB composite captured in E-Eye spain using a CFF 185mm APO & SBIG STL-11000 camera. – “The M45 image was taken with a remote system in Spain, consisting of 15x 10 min exposures in R, G and B and 34x 3 min exposures in L over several sessions. The combination was entirely done in APP, it was my first multi-filter processing and just like with the mosaics, APP made it easy. I still use PI for some tiny tweaks in post-processing. “

Heart & Soul, Hydrogen Alpha mosaic by Vincent Groenewold – “The mosaic of the heart- and soul nebulae was, again, my first ever mosaic and it worked perfectly straight away. This blew me away the most as it was so easy, I was just creating mosaics on the fly, while gathering the data, just to check if the data looked ok. I didn’t crop the image as I like the raw look of the mosaic itself. I took this one from my own backyard in the Netherlands, it’s all H-alpha taken with 15 min exposures and at least 2 frames per panel. The heart nebula has seen the most time. “

Since I started to like APP a lot and knowing Mabula a bit already, it became a natural fit to get to work for him. As a moderator with the potential to get into development as well, I’m hoping to contribute to the success of APP and helping all of you as much as possible.

Clear nights!

Vincent