Florian Brill Fotografie

29/01/2026

This little timelapses was captured on the evening of the 20th of January, where some residual aurora activity could be seen over Germany. Unfortunately, I was on a business trip the day before, where most of the recent solar storm hit our blue little marble.

14/01/2026

Reusing leftovers - Around three years ago (01/2023) I started shooting this object, but it never came to life. Since then, I was repeatedly using this object to test my filters for halos - and I tested quite a lot. Six different duo-narrowband filters and one SHO set for mono cameras were tested on this object to see if the two bright stars (Tejat and Propus) can cause any halos.

Now, I tried to combine all my test images and "leftovers" to an usable image. For the SII channel I had to combine a 2 panel mosaic, since I was using another telescope with a smaller field of view. So quite an extensive work to combine all those (quite different) frames.

What you see here is a supernova remnant (SNR) called the Jellyfish Nebula as a narrowband false-color display.

As you swipe along, you will see different channel combinations. Which one is your favorite?!
1. SHO | 2. HOO+SII | 3. OHS

Most of the data was collected with my Apo setup:
TS CF Apo90 | x0.8 red | 432mm | f/4.8 | QHY268c

Filters I tested were:
Optolong L-eXtreme
Altair Ultra 4nm Ha-OIII (two versions)
Altair Ultra 6nm SII-OIII
Antlia Alp-T Ha-OIII
Player One Anti Halo Pro Ha-OIII

To add more signal to the SII channel, I added data from my Newtonian rig with the Baader Highspeed SII filter:
Lacerta Fotonewton 8" | Nexus | 600 mm | f/3 | TT2600m

22/09/2025

Hei there, yes I'm still alive and doing my astro-thingy. However, I was quite pi**ed by IG and other social media platforms owned by some ugly billionaires

27/10/2024

What a unique night yesterday! As you might know, I'm quite used to spending the night outdoors under the starry sky with a telescope. But yesterday was different.
The state observatory of Thuringia (Thüringer Landessternwarte) hosted their "Long Night of Stars" (Lange Nacht der Sterne). It was just crazy how many people were up there.
Nevertheless, I managed to get a ticket for the tour to their flagship telescope, the Alfred-Jensch telescope, which is the biggest Schmidt-Camera in the world with a primary mirror diameter of 2m! 🤩🔭
Fortunately, there was only a thin layer of Cirrus clouds, which the telescope could pierce through easily.

13/10/2024

The Lion Nebula (Sh2-132) - One of my favorite objects lately. The strong separation between Hydrogen-Alpha (red) and Oxygen-III emissions (cyan) looks just crazy.
Scroll through the images to discover more of the beautiful details of this wonderful object.
The last two images show the power of narrowband filters. Without such filters, the whole image would just be covered in stars (last image).

I'll also upload this image to my new Astrobin account, so that you can see it in full resolution.

Narrowband: L-eXtreme and ALTAIR ULTRA 4nm Ha-OIII
288x600s = 48h

Broadband: UV-IR-Cut
105x300s = 8.75h

Total integration time: 56.75h

TS CF-Apo90 + 0.8x reducer | 432mm | f/4.8
QHY268s | Gain 0 (BB) | Gain 60 (NB) | -15°C
Skywatcher EQ6-r pro

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11/10/2024

Earth was hit again by a massive solar storm and this time the northern lights could actually be seen in our mid-latitudes and even further down in Switzerland, Italy and Spain!
Unfortunately, large parts of Germany were covered under a solid layer of clouds, so the only chance was hoping for some tiny gaps between them. This mystical reddish glow was all I could capture. But remember: The experience of being out at night and trying to witness natures wonders is way more important than a good photo ;)

Nikon D610 | Sigma Art 14mm 1.8 | f/2.5 | 15s | ISO 1600

10/09/2024

20/05/2024

Was für eine Ehre, dass es eines meiner Bilder in einen Beitrag von Dennis Schmelz geschafft hat! Schau unbedingt mal hier vorbei. Es erwartet euch eine kurze Geschichte über Polarlichter, KI-generierte Bilder und den Kern der Fotografie.

11/05/2024

It's really hard to realize what has just happened. I've been traveling above the polar circle in the middle of winter to see the northern lights. But tonight they just appeared right in front of our doorstep. Definitely a night to remember for many of us!

22/03/2024

12P/Pons-Brooks from the 9th of March 2024

This is actually my second approach of shooting a comet with a telescope. Taking pictures of comets at higher focal length is quite challenging. They move pretty fast against the starry background, so that each exposure has to stay rather short (120s in this case). Since comets only really shine when they are close to the sun, they can only be seen close to dusk or down. So total shooting time is normally limited to 1-2h. Furthermore, you cannot stack images from multiple nights, because the structure within the comets tail constantly changes. In my case there were also some power lines next to my observatory obstructing the view. So I ended up with only 25 subs with 2min each.
Processing is also quite different compared to normal deepsky editing. In total I spent four evenings messing around with the files, trying to squeeze everything out that was possible. I also hat a chat with about the differences between mono and OSC processing. In the end, I'm quite happy with the result.
I hope you like it.

25x 120s subs with a UV-IR-Cut filter (50min in total)

TS CF-Apo 90 | x0.8 red | 432mm | f/4.8
QHY 268c | Gain 0 | Offset 20 | -15°C
Skywatcher EQ6r-pro