Maarten de Vries
Maarten has had an interested in astronomy since he was a small boy. He's been a member of the Society since 1999. He's especially interested in photographing wide field deep space objects. His equipment comprises of a Helios Apollo 150 f/6.7 short tube newtonian, a Helios Startravel 102 f/5 refractor and a German Equatorial mount with dual axis drives. For imaging he uses either a Pentax K1000 SLR, a Minolta S404 (4Mpix digital camera), a QuickCam Express modified web camera, or a purpose built high sensitivity 640x480 pixels colour video camera using a Sony CCD chip from a decommissioned video conferencing system.
![Webcam Image of the Sun](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Sun-001.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![Aurora (Knockbain) 30/10/03](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Aurora-001.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![Lunar Eclipse, 3 March 2007](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Lunar-022.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![M31 the Andromeda Galaxy 21/09/02](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Messier-003.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![Mars en Route to Opposition](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Planets-001.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![Orion's Belt and Sword](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery_Constellations_001.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![Partial Solar Eclipse from Aberlemno (Angus) 03/10/05](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Sun-003.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![M45: The Pleiades 09/2002](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Messier-002.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![The Double Cluster (NGC 869 & 884) 21/09/02](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery_NGC_001.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![Sun Pillar 22/02/03](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Atmosphere-001.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)
![Venus (from Knockbain) 09/05/04](https://web-cdn.org/s/1204/image/Old-Site/Gallery-Planets-002.jpeg?r=10&maxwidth=800&maxheight=1400)