250.000 Visitors on my Blog - Thank You

Today, my blog reached 250K visitors. Thanks for reading my blogposts.

Happy New Year 2026

 Happy Astronomical New Year 2026 with lots of clear skies.

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.

13 Years Blogging

My blog started on December 23, 2012 ... already 13 years blogging :)

200.000 visitors on my Blog

 

Reaching 200.000 visitors on my blog. Thank you all for reading my blogposts. 

Happy New Year 2025

Happy Astronomical New Year 2025 with many many clear skies.

 

My Blog Statistics 2024

My Blog Statistics 2024:

A total of 134 blogposts and more then 45.000 visitors this year. This brings the total blogposts to almost 2150 and total visitors to 188.000.

180.000 Visitors

Reaching 180.000 visitors since the start of my blog. Thank you all for visiting and reading my blogposts.

150.000 Visitors and Comet 12P/Pons Brooks

 

Celebrating 150.000 visitors since the start of my blog and I'm doing this with my picture I took this evening of Comet 12P/Pons Brooks.

Setting: TLAPO80/480 f/6 with Nikon D7500

Filter:Optolong L-Pro

Mount: Manfrotto

Exposure : ISO16000, 2x2s

Software: DNG converter and CS4

Happy New Year 2024

Happy Astronomical New Year 2024

140.000 Visitors

Since the start of my blog on December 2012, I'm counting an amazing number of 140.000 visits to my blog. Thanks for visiting my blog and hopefully I have managed to convey my passion for astronomy, solargraphy and related sciences.

My Blog Statistics - Blogposts and Visits

A visual presentation of my @blogposts and #visits of my Astro Page blog. This year, blogpost number 2000 was posted. 

130.000 Visitors

 

Since the start of my blog on December 2012, I'm counting an amazing number of 130.000 visits to my blog. Thank you all for those visits in which I made a small contribution to promote astronony, solargraphy and related sciences.

My Blog Statistics - Visits & Posts

A visual presentation of my @blogposts and #visits to my Astro Page blog.

My blog name changed

I changed the name of my blog from Orionxt to Pascalhilkensastropage.

As from now, this is the link to my renamed blog : https://pascalhilkensastropage.blogspot.com

Astroblog: The Lonely Photon

Two astro bloggers: Pascal (l) and Adriano (r)

End of March I met in Berzieux (France) a new friend, Adriano, with the same intrest. Both stayed in the very dark skies of Berzieux making astropictures. It was a pleasure talking with him and to share tips and ideas. Interesting as well is that we both have a personal blog.

Adriano's blog can be found as The Lonely Photon - see this link.

Adriano has build up lot's of experience with installing his astro equipment on different locations as his own location suffers from lightpollution. This was clearly shown in Berzieux: remote, fast and efficient set up.

Lately he is taking pictures of nebulas and galaxies with long exposures (5-15hours) with some awesome results. 

Astro Page #Visits

My Astro Page was visited many times... since the start in 2012 already more the 120.000 times.

Happy Anniversary : 9 years blogging!

Today, I celebrate 9 years of blogging. My blog "Astro Page" started on december 23, 2012. I posted more then 1600 posts and people visited my blog more then 120.000 times. 

70.000 Visitors

Cool! ..... reaching 70.000 visitors for my astroblog. Thank you all!

My picture on National TV

My picture, which I took this morning, of a double rainbow at the Demer river in Langdorp (Aarschot) was broadcasted on the National TV. During "Het Weer", the daily weather forecast from channel 1, my picture was presented by Bram Verbruggen.