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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.

  • 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.

  • 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:  a full-day workshop including:

    • 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.
All Workshop participants of the first full-day Workshop Astro Pixel Processor at the Volkssterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium. Mabula Haverkamp is stitting in the front on the right side.
Workshop is almost starting… everyone has documentation, data and their laptop…
Workshop is almost starting… everyone has documentation, data and their laptop…
Workshop is almost starting… everyone has documentation, data and their laptop…
Volkssterrenwacht Urania
Workshop documentation – front page
Workshop documentation – contents
Workshop documentation – contents
Volkssterrenwacht Urania
Sort on TimeShot and plot sky background luminosity. We have data of 2 nights, and each night during the imaging session, she sky is getting brighter towards dawn…
The bottom Frame List Panel showing the second frame column. A lot of vital information is shown in this column.
Frame quality analysis in Astro Pixel Processor. Plot analytical results for quality, noise, star size & roundness (star shape), background luminosity etc… Use this to do frame selection and possibly frame rejection.
Light Pollution Correction model – with the Remove Light Pollution tool, you can also visualize the correction model
The Small Magellanic Cloud before and after Star Color Calibration
A luminance integration with an outlier rejection map of the Small Magellanic Cloud
A main sequence star is in hydrostatic equilibrium. The gravitational force of the whole star is in equilibrium with the gas pressure created by nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium, in it’s core.
The Hertzsprung-Russel diagram for our sun and it’s neighbours in the Milkyway.
The Sculptor galaxy – performing Star Color Calibration
Astronomical Color-Color diagrams and Black Body physics are the basis for Star Color Calibration in Astro Pixel Processor
BlackBody physics – main sequence stars are fusing hydrogen to helium in their cores and are in hydrostatic equilibrium. As such, main sequence stars shine like so-called Black Bodies. Their color is dependent on their surface temperature.
The Small Magellanic Cloud LRGB final result of the Workshop and it’s inverse.
iTelescope.net

  • 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.

  • 18th of May, 2019 – 35th ATT Essen, Germany

Aries Productions – Astro Pixel Processor is very grateful to the Walter-Hohmann-Sternwarte Essen e.V. (Germany) for having organized the 35th ATT Essen, Europe’s largest Astronomy Fair.
 
It has been an awesome day, meeting a lot of new and existing Astro Pixel Processor users. Special thanks and recognition go out to:
    • 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.
Impression of part of the ATT in Essen, Germany.
StarAid crew preparing for start of the ATT Essen
StarAid crew at their booth at the ATT Essen
Mabula Haverkamp and Jörg Henkel from the ATT organization talking about astrophotography in general and Astro Pixel Processor in particular.
Mabula talking with Diego Colonnello at the Aries Productions – Astro Pixel Processor booth.
Impression of part of the ATT Essen, Germany
Complete StarAid crew and Mabula Haverkamp from Aries Productions – Astro Pixel Processor on the right side
Mabula Haverkamp and Jörg Henkel from the ATT organization talking about astrophotography in general and Astro Pixel Processor in particular.
Diego Colonnello and Gerard Haverkamp (Mabula’s father) at the ATT Essen.
Impression of part of the ATT Essen, Germany

  • 11th of May, 2019 – Werkgroep Astrofotografie

Aries Productions was present at the Meeting of the Dutch Werkgroep Astrofotografie in Oss, The Netherlands.

Aries Productions – Astro Pixel Processor booth at the meeting of the Werkgroep Astrofotografie in Oss, The Netherlands

  • 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.

Mabula giving his talk in the observatory…

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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

Astro Pixel Processor: introduction

Astro Pixel Processor introduction at The Astro Imaging Channel
Astro Pixel Processor introduction at The Astro Imaging Channel, 28th of October 2018. Screenshot of 1 slide of the presentation showing a Hubble palette compositie of narrowband data of the HorseHead Nebula. Data courtesy of Sara Wager.

Animation of a 11-panel widefield mosaic by Stefan Lenz and Mabula Haverkamp, that is shown in the presentation, in high resolution with music.

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Astro Pixel Processor introduction at The Astro Imaging Channel

  • 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

APP overview of current and future functionality by Mabula Haverkamp, slide 71
APP overview of current and future functionality by Mabula Haverkamp, slide 71. Shown is an animation of a 10 panel mosaic created in APP from data acquired by Stefan Lenz (Germany) at Kiripotib, Namibia. Slide 70 shows more image capture details.

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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.

Mabula Haverkamp introduced himself and talks about his exotic origin at the Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, January 27th 2018, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society
Mabula speaking at the Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society
Mabula Haverkamp just started his talk about Astro Pixel Processor in Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society
Mabula speaking at the Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society
The crowd preparing for a packed day of interesting talks at the Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society
Mabula speaking at the Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society
Mabula Haverkamp was about to start his talk about Astro Pixel Processor in Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society
Mabula answering questions from the crowd at the Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society
Mabula speaking at the Volks Sterrenwacht Urania, Hove, Belgium, during the yearly meeting of the Belgium Workgroup for astrophotography of the Belgium Astronomy Society

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

https://www.starnights.be/

 

Astro Pixel Processor introductory presentatiion
Astro Pixel Processor introductory presentatiion

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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:

EMWP_Haverkamp_ossTalk-20170408-online-NL.pdf