Aurora Iceland

With a Kp 4 (or was it more?) we could observe polarlight in Iceland. Observation was done in Hellissandur near the Coast. Sky cleared up but with high clouds. Polarlight was visible as from 22h but kept going for a couple of hours. A certain moments the entire sky was colored green. Picture taken by my daughter with iPhone. So more pictures to come.

Rainbow @Skogafoss

Beautifull waterfall Skogafoss (Iceland) with a nice rainbow.

Rainbow above volcano crater

> When walking around Volcano Crater @Selfoss Iceland a supernumerary rainbow showed up creating a nice view and picture.
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Apocalyptic Red Rainbow at Sunset

I could image a rainbow, only 9 minutes before sunset. The rainbow was quit red with aswell a red cloudy background. Very apocalyptic...

Sunspot AR4197

Sunspot AR4197 consists of about 50 spots and is 740MH big. Late afternoon clouds started to disappear and I installed my TAL200K. My parents were at home and I let them watch the big sunspot. Next I connected my ASI290MM camera and took some images. Seeing wasn't good which resulted in more then 500Gb of data. Stacking was done using AstroSurface but editing was done with IMPPG and CS4.

Setting: TAL200 f/8.5, barlow x2 and ASI290MM

Filters : ND5.0, IR/UV cut and OIII

Software: SharpCap, AstroSurface, IMPPG and CS4

 

Supernumerary Rainbow

This evening a double rainbow which was also a supernumrary one.

Image taken @Averbode - Belgium 

Sun August 24, 2025

The Sun this morning (August 24, 2025). Some more 
adjusting of my new Sol'Ex by James R. 

Seeing was < 1,5arcs but at noon time this was increase to 2,5arcs.

Setting: TLAPO80/480 with ASI678MM and Sol'Ex by James R with 2nd Gen slit

Herschel Wedge

Tilt < 0,25° and Sx/Sy 1,1

Software: SharpCap, Inti, JSolex and CS4

Seeing SSM3 on SharpCap