About Vincent

Hello dear AstroPixelProcessor users,

Vincent Groenewold
Vincent Groenewold

My name is Vincent Groenewold. I’m a 40 year old lover of all things related to science and astrophysics in particular, which resulted in me starting 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 controlled from inside my house at the end of that same year. I did love those cold nights though, it’s a unique experience.

I also started to learn all of the software needed to both take the pictures and post-process them, so there may have been some big headache at the end of that year. But I loved every minute of the entire learning process and haven’t stopped trying to advance it further. With the release of AstroPixelProcessor I was suddenly doing mosaics like it was nothing and learned even more about correct ways of calibration and such.

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 knew Mabula a bit already, it became a natural fit to get to work for him as a moderator right here during my time abroad. Yes, moderating straight from New-Zealand!

I hope I can assist Mabula in giving all of you the right kind of advice and help you in any way I can.

Clear nights!

Vincent