Donnerstag, 9. Juli 2026

Photon Run

 Well I am always trying something new in combination with my hobbies. I setup a Suno Pro account and together with ChatGPT Plus wrote a song about my Astronomy Hobby! Enjoy!



Photon Run (YouTube)

Lyrics:

Mittelbiberach, midnight, rolling out the C-eleven,

Himmelstor Horeb, Bortle Four, gateway into heaven,

CGX aligning, CEM encoders synchronizing,

Polar axis, plate-solve, automatic target finding.


HyperStar at f-one-two, photons pouring through the glass,

ASI twenty-six-hundred, filling up the frame fast,

Quadband hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur separation,

Forty-five-second fireworks, nebular creation.


NINA running sequences, meridian calculation,

PHD correcting every tiny stellar deviation,

FocusCube adjusting while the temperature is falling,

Cold-air constellation and the distant owls are calling.


We’re on a photon run,

Till the morning sun,

Red light, starlight, data coming one by one.

From the Eagle to the Veil,

Every pixel tells the tale,

Through the darkness, through the frost,

We go chasing ancient light.


Monkey Head and M-seventeen, Orion’s incandescent fire,

Markarian galaxies stretching higher, higher, higher,

Lagoon and the Trifid in a wide-field combination,

Eastern Veil, Western Veil, supernova detonation.


Spaghetti mosaic, six-panel integration,

Astronomical Pixel Processor registration,

Siril stretching, PixInsight dynamic extraction,

Photoshop and Topaz for the final satisfaction.


Flats at one-point-three-five, warm panel illumination,

Dark-flats, bias, calibration, gradient elimination,

Histogram positioned, vignetting disappearing,

Clean field, round stars, and the spiral arms appearing.


We’re on a photon run,

Till the morning sun,

Red light, starlight, data coming one by one.

From the Tulip to the Broom,

From the Ring to the Cocoon,

Through the darkness, through the frost,

We go chasing ancient light.


Celestron reducer, seventeen-sixty-four effective,

Long-exposure galaxies demanding and selective,

M-one-oh-six structure, M-eight-one hydrogen blending,

Three-hundred-second frames while the guiding graph is trending.


RA mesh breathing, DEC moving southward only,

Four-second guide frames while the mount stands calm and lonely,

Dither five, settle down, another frame beginning,

Tiny corrections underneath a slowly turning heaven.


Then the Maksutov is waiting for a neighbor observation,

Binocular eyepieces, lunar crater exploration,

Ring Nebula ghost-light, Saturn hanging golden,

Ancient photons reaching eyes before the story’s spoken.


No observatory roof,

No robotic separation,

Hands upon the hardware,

Part of every operation.


Setting up is peaceful,

Taking down is contemplation,

Every cable, every counterweight,

A midnight meditation.


Heliostar hydrogen, solar surface boiling,

Prominence eruption, magnetic plasma coiling,

ASI one-seven-four capturing the motion,

FireCapture recording every wave across the ocean.


RegiStax wavelets, AstroSurface sharpening,

Granulation rising while the solar limb is darkening,

Daylight astronomy, nighttime revelation,

One man, one sky, one lifelong fascination.


Photo stacks and starlight pictures carrying the flame,

Instagram and Facebook sending starlight through the frame,

Lectures, stories, neighbors gathered underneath the dome,

The universe is distant, but the telescope brings it home.


We’re on a photon run,

Till the morning sun,

Red light, starlight, data coming one by one.

From the surface of the Sun

To the galaxies that run

Through the darkness, through the frost,

We go chasing ancient light.


We’re on a photon run,

And the night is never done,

Every star began its journey long before we’d begun.

With the C-eleven turning

And the hydrogen burning,

At the gateway on the hillside,

We go chasing ancient light.


Mittwoch, 24. September 2025

See the Past Seminar in Biberach was great!

Thanks to everyone who attended the Seminar in Stadtbuchhandlung Biberach, the evening was great! We had lots of fun discovering the hobby of Amateur Astronomy as well as gaining insights into seeing and time.

The break was filled with interesting talk, sharing thoughts about what we had seen. Wine, beer and pink prosseco made the event that much more enjoyable.

Thanks especially to Corinna, Rüdiger and Paul for your support making the evening run smoothy and freeing me to concentrate on my gear and presentation. The beautiful venue added a very special ambience!

Can't wait to present the show again there sometime!

Due to privacy considerations, I will not post pictures with the attendees in them.








Samstag, 6. September 2025

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Sonntag, 17. November 2024

First Children's Book available!

 Just in time for Easter, my new book "Can you show me the planets?" is available in Amazon or better yet, in the Stadtbuchhandlung Biberach! Owner Corinna Palm has added my book to her shelves in the stores new location, Schrannen Strasse 4, 88400 Biberach a.d. Riß. Makes a great easter present!

This is the story of a question from my neighbor Mina and how we learn about the hobby of astronomy and the planets, and other celestial objects.

This is a story and coloring book which will bring the young one in your life hours of fun.

The book is available in english and german. Get it today!


On Amazon.de


Will you show me the planets?

Mittwoch, 6. November 2024

Book Series Available

I've published my first series of Adult Coloring Books, designed for meditative coloring, on Amazon KDP. Check it out! 

English (Amazon.com US): Molecular Moods: A Coloring Journey Through Everyday Chemistry

Deutsch: Molecular Moods Malbuchreihe (3 Bücher)






Here is more information about the positive aspects of adult coloring.

German

English

Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2024

Sunday work?

How about working on a "Sunday"? Imagine a live solar observatory at your place of work. I can setup my telescope in the parking lot or lawn of your business and provide an opportunity for you and your interested coworkers to view the sun, safely directly or by live feed to a monitor.

View of the sunspots after solar mass ejection
Its really a treat to take a look at the sun with your own eyes. I employ a wideband filter which provides a view of sunspots on the surface. 
My telescope is not able to show prominences or flares.

In this photo you can see the sunspots responsible for the Aurora Borealis we recently saw on May 11th. The ejection took place a few days before when the area of activity was pointed directly at the earth. The particles then need about 3 to 5 days to reach earth. I photographed these the morning of May 11th. 

If you're interested, send an email to sunday@seabrooke.de. 


Sonntag, 12. Mai 2024

Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis Lights Up German Sky

On May 11, 2024, while preparing for a night of stargazing in Mittelbiberach, Germany, I was surprised to witness the aurora borealis in the sky. Grabbing my iPhone, I managed to capture the vibrant hues ranging from green to blue, purple, and even bright magenta. 



Here are some highlights from the unexpected celestial display:



It was a captivating sight, reminding me of the beauty of nature and the wonders that can unexpectedly grace our skies.

**Notice:** The written description was created using ChatGPT LLM.


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