My Astronomical & Blog statistics

My astronomical and blog statistics.

- Same blogposts as the last two years

- Increase visits and now above 240.000 visits

- My project "Herschel 400" is not progressing

- A total of 16 observation nights, which much better then last year and comparable with 2023. The focus is on a couple of objects and long exposure images made over more days; eg. Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon and Bernard's Loop.

Astronomical Highlights 2025

Looking back on 2025, It was a difficult year for my health, and the weather didn’t always help either. But still there were a lot of unique and WOW  astronomical moments. Below my personal list

1) Attending Space Weather training at STCE

2) Aurora during our holliday in Iceland

3) My new Sol'Ex by James R with 2nd Gen slit, capturing E Corona & JASON2025

4) Red rainbow with more then 4700 likes, 245 remarks and 52 times shared

5) My first long exposure of 7h capturing M51

6) M31 with asteroid Eros and learning ASTAP

7) Sunspot AR4048

8) Interstellar Comet 3I/Altas

9) Planet Jupiter, Mars and Saturn

10) Comet C/2025 A6

11) Wide field of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and the Moon

Astronomical Challenges 2026

I made some preparation for 2026. Below list are my  Astronomical Challenges 2026 (source Hemel Calender 2026, SkySafari, Stellarium and ChatGPT)

By celestial body/event  (by date see below)

Planetoides

January 5 Eros (433) M33 

January 20 Nysa (44) M44 and 3I/Atlas

February 22 Psych (16) NGC1647

February 26-28 Papagena 471 Urania

April 26 Nysa (44) M44

July 28 Ceres (1) M1 

July 28 10P/ Tempel M30

Comets

February 23 24P/Schamuasse M5

March 6-8 46P/Wirtanen Hyaden Melotte25

March 8-14 10P/Tempel 40P/Vaisala

March 14-20 46P/Wirtanen Pleiades 

April 1 24P/Schamuasse M5

Jun 25: 10P/Tempel M72

June 15-25 C/2025 F2 M53

July 1 10P/Tempel NGC7009

October 23-24 10P/Tempel NGC 7507 7513

Planets

January 10 Opposition Jupiter 

June 3 Sodium tail Mercury

June 8, 12, 13 16 Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Vesta, Pallas, Mercury, Moon 

July 11 Moon Pleiades Mars Urania

October 4 Opposition Saturn 

October 11 Mars M44

November 26 Sodium tail Mercury

Swingby Juice

28 september

3 december

Occultations

February 17: Felicia 294 UT20h36

Moon

January 27 Pleiades

February 25 Hesiodus Ray

August 28 Eclips

October 19 Hesiodus Ray

October 28 Pleiades

December 21 Pleiades

Variable stars

Februray 27 Algol

October 23 Algol

November 15 Algol

Eclips

August 12 Solar Eclipse

Variables to measure during one night and max +/- 1 or 5 days from new moon, according to ChatGPT 

By date 

January 5 Eros (433) M33 

January 10 Opposition Jupiter 

January 20 Nysa (44) M44 and 3I/Atlas

January 27 Moon Pleiades

February 17: Felicia 294 UT20h36

February 22 Psych (16) NGC1647

February 23 24P/Schamuasse M5

February 25 Moon Hesiodus Ray

February 26-28 Papagena 471 Urania

Februray 27 Algol

March 6-8 46P/Wirtanen Hyaden Melotte25

March 8-14 10P/Tempel 40P/Vaisala

March 14-20 46P/Wirtanen Pleiades 

April 1 24P/Schamuasse M5

April 26 Nysa (44) M44

June 3 Sodium tail Mercury

June 8, 12, 13 16 Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Vesta, Pallas, Mercury, Moon 

June 15-25 C/2025 F2 M53

Jun 25: 10P/Tempel M72

July 1 10P/Tempel NGC7009

July 11 Moon Pleiades Mars Urania

July 28 Ceres (1) M1 

July 28 10P/ Tempel M30

August 12 Solar Eclipse

August 28 Moon Eclips

September 28 Swingby Juice

October 4 Opposition Saturn 

October 11 Mars M44

October 19 Moon Hesiodus Ray

October 23 Algol

October 23-24 10P/Tempel NGC 7507 7513

October 28 Moon Pleiades

November 15 Algol

November 26 Sodium tail Mercury

December 3 Swingby Juice

December 21 Moon Pleiades

Astronomical Highlights 2024

Again an interesting astronomical year "2024" with some amazing "wow" moments and again great learnings. At home clouds and rain had an impact on my deepsky imaging. But still ...I had to limit the list but these are my astronomical highlights:

#1 Amazing Northern Light show above my home, first time ever 

#2 Sol'Ex presentations, Sol'Ex images and attending ROS in Serbannes

#3 Huge sunspot 3664 which was also published in STCE magazine

#4 Houston Space Center 

#5 Imaging Milky Way in Big Bend Dark Park (bortle 1) 

#6 Visiting Gravitational Wave Centrum LIGO @Livingstone

#7 Occultation of Saturn by Moon

#8 Comet C/2023 A3 Tsushinshan-Atlas

#9 Noctilucent Clouds

#10 Halo's around Sun and Moon

#11 Nightscape Venus and Mercury

#12 Solar Eclips Kerrville-Texas April 8, 2024

#13 Reworked image of Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017 using Larson-Sekanina filter

Astronomical Highlights 2023

Again an interesting astronomical year "2023" with some amazing "wow" moments and again great learnings. I had to limit the list but these are my astronomical highlights:

#1 Comet C/2022 E3(ZTF) with 3 tails
#2 Saturn at opposition
#3 Sol'Ex images of the Sun in H-alpha and CaK
#4 Jupiter
#5 Circumscribed halo and parhelic circle

Worth mentioning:

#6 Sun in HeI (D3) spectrum
#7 Moon halo, Moondogs and paraselene circle
#8 Supernova SN2023ixf in M101
#9 M81
#10 Visit Radio Astronomy Center Humain
#11 Venus, Mercury and Pleiades