We just received some spectacular images of this two planet in our solar system. All of these pictures were taken by Sebastian Voltmer with his DBK 31AU03.AS astronomy camera in Namibia. He wrote us (translated from German): … The Great Red Spot and Red Spot Jr of Jupiter were both visible on earth when Ganymed [...]

“Wiederkehr des Mars”, or “Return of Mars” in English, is a scientific film directed by Sebastian Voltmer, who is also an astronomy amateur based in Germany. The film contains large amount of Mars pictures that have never been published before, and all these pictures were taken with The Imaging Source Astronomy Cameras. Sebastian Voltmer wrote [...]

We have talked about Sebastian Voltmer before in this blog. He has submitted some very spectacular images, many of which he captured with his DMK 21BF04 FireWire camera. Sebastian has been fascinated by astronomy and the universe since he was 12. What got him really started was the Jupiter Crash between July 16, 1994 and [...]

Sebastian Voltmer, who is slowly becoming a regular in this blog, wrote to us again this week, sending in the following image. In this e-mail, Sebastian writes: Anbei noch eine Saturnaufnahme vom 13.01.08. Es ist eines der ersten Saturnbilder, die mit der Farbkamera DFK 21AU04.AS entstanden sind. Via USB [2.0] war es problemlos möglich, 30 [...]

Sebastian Voltmer wrote in last week, to announce that his web site had been updated to included a number of images that he captured with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras. The following image of Saturn, which was captured on March 22, 2007, particularly caught our attention: In addition, Sebastian’s web site contains a number of [...]