Galleri Heaven & Earth

For countless hours, Jakob has used telescopes and cameras to take pictures of the night sky to show our fantastic universe, solar system and night landscapes.

The pictures are taken at home in Jakob's backyard on Falster. When Jakob is not sitting with his binoculars in the backyard, he wanders through the landscapes of the night with his camera and tripod – Jakob is always on the hunt for new motifs of the night sky across the dark landscapes of Lolland and Falster.

Lolland and Falster are Jakob's playground at night – It is both dark and incredibly beautiful around the South Sea islands, almost no matter where you are.

Jakob Arthur Andersen is a self-taught astrophotographer. The process places enormous demands on wind and weather, the quality of the sky and the setting of the equipment. Since the Danish weather is not always optimal for this, the photos are taken over several days. This also means that you have to be quick once the weather is at its best – sometimes the weather is only good enough for a few hours at a time. Other nights there is no cloud and starry all night, so you can sit outside until the early hours of the morning.

Once the photos have been taken, many hours of work follow with the development process itself. In short, everything has to come together in order for it to be possible to take these pictures. The images must be developed digitally via a computer.

This process places great demands on image processing, and on the person who is going to develop the image, as all the different details often have to be brought out in the image separately – it is certainly not just "pressing a few buttons". Jakob sees the digital development process as his palette, and the camera as his brush. Astrophotography is therefore part science and part art.

The gallery does not charge an entrance fee, and there are no fixed opening hours - it is by appointment.

You can read much more about the subject on Jakob's website