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European AstroFest 2023 – 3 & 4 February 2023 – Kensington Conference and Events Centre, London.
Aries Productions (Mabula & Vincent) was present as an exhibitor at the conference.
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AstroFest 2020, 31st of January & 1st of February at Kensington Conference and Events Centre, London
Aries Productions was present as an exhibitor at the conference together with our fellow dutch crew of StarAid Revolution.
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7th of December 2019, Full-Day Workshop Astro Pixel Processor, Volkssterrenwacht Urania, Belgium.
Mabula gave a full day workshop on complete Deep Sky image processing using Astro Pixel Processor, from data calibration to post-processing. The workshop was organized by Volkssterrenwacht Urania in Hove, Belgium.
This Astro Pixel Processor Workshop was the first of it’s kind globally:Â a full-day workshop including:
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- an extensive workshop document in pdf format (75 pages) and
- several GBs of workshop data, courtesy of iTelescope.net, to discuss all data processing functionality in Astro Pixel Processor.
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16th of October 2019, Volkssterrenwacht Bussloo
Mabula gave an overview and demonstration of APP’s functionality for Deep Sky image processing.
Additionaly, Hendrik Beijeman of StarAid gave a talk and demonstration of the StarAid Revolution.
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18th of May, 2019 – 35th ATT Essen, Germany
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- our fellow dutch crew of StarAid Revolution who have just successfully launched their revolutionary autoguider solution https://staraid.ai/
- Diego Colonnello, from Sidereal Trading Australia, who came all the way, from down under, to visit the ATT Essen.
- Stefan Reichmann from Teleskop-Schutzbauten.de, who makes awesome custom made wooden observatoria for astronomers all over Europe.
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11th of May, 2019 – Werkgroep Astrofotografie
Aries Productions was present at the Meeting of the Dutch Werkgroep Astrofotografie in Oss, The Netherlands.

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14th of December 2018, Observatory/Sterrenwacht Halley, Heesch
Astro Pixel Processor – introductie
Presentation was given in Dutch for a dutch crowd. PDF is dutch as well.
Presentation content is similar to the presentation given on The Astro Imaging Channel, see below, which was in English.

Best viewed using
- Latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, or any other PDF viewer that supports animations.
- the highest screen resolution that you have available.
The presentation is about 370 MBs large. Please save the PDF to your own computer once the download has completed.
Click the link below to download/view the DUTCH presentation in PDF format:
Astro Pixel Processor introductie at Observatory/Sterrenwacht Halley, Heesch, The Netherlands
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28th of October 2018, Mabula gave an online presentation about APP on TAIC – The Astro Imaging Channel
Astro Pixel Processor: introduction

Animation of a 11-panel widefield mosaic by Stefan Lenz and Mabula Haverkamp, that is shown in the presentation, in high resolution with music.
Best viewed using
- Latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, or any other PDF viewer that supports animations. Animations are shown on slides 45,70 and 83.
- the highest screen resolution that you have available.
The presentation is about 364 MBs large. Please save the PDF to your own computer once the download has completed.
Click the link below to download/view the English presentation in PDF format:
Astro Pixel Processor introduction at The Astro Imaging Channel
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27th of January 2018, Hove, Belgium, at Volks Sterrenwacht Urania in Hove, Belgium at the yearly meeting of the Astrophotography Workgroup of the Belgium Astronomy Society (V.V.S).
Astro Pixel Processor: overview of current and future functionality
http://www.vvs.be/werkgroepen/werkgroep-astrofotografie

Best viewed using
- Latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, or any other PDF viewer that supports animations. Animations are shown on slides 38 and 71.
- the highest screen resolution that you have available.
The presentation is about 300MBs large. Please save the PDF to your own computer once the download has completed.
Click the link below to download/view the English presentation in PDF format:
APP Overview Of Current And Future Functionality
Animation of a 11-panel widefield mosaic by Stefan Lenz and Mabula Haverkamp, that is shown in the presentation, in high resolution with music. (Update 1st sep 2018: improved version of the animation was uploaded)
My talk was recorded and uploaded to Youtube by Jurgen Kobierczynski, a member of the Belgian Astronomy Society. The talk was held in the Dutch language, but the slides are all in English. The video is 65 minutes long and shows almost the complete presentation.
Images during the talk were shot by Geert van den Bulcke
Astro Pixel Processor: introduction
- 8th of April, 2017, Oss, the Netherlands, at the biannually meeting of the Dutch Astrophotography Working Group, part of the Royal Netherlands Association for Meteorology and Astronomy (KNVWS):
http://www.vereniging-astrofotografie.nl/
- 26th of August, 2017, StarNights Starparty at AstroLAB IRIS, Ieper-Zillebeke, Belgium

Best viewed using
- Adobe Acrobat Reader, or any other PDF viewer that supports animations. Page 64, has an animation, showing the optical distortion correction model of a Samyang 14mm f/2.8 objective.
- the highest screen resolution that you have available.
The presentation is 300MBs large. Please save the PDF to your own computer once the download has completed.
The English version is the recommended version to download. It has some additional information and slides not contained in the Dutch version.
English version with additional information and slides:
EMWP_Haverkamp_ossTalk-20170408-online-ENG.pdf
Dutch version: