Partial Suneclips Succesfull

This morning weather was still cloudy and this would last untill 10am according meteoblue. Looking at the different options, I took the decission to drive 150km east towards Malmedy. I did arrive just before the first contact and there was still some fog but every minute the weather became better.
The view was fantastic while unloading the material and setting up my camera and telescoop.

The picture above was taken with a normal camera and using ocular projection from my telescope orionxt12.

Partial Sun Eclips One day to go

Weather forecast changed towards partial cloudy. After fog in the morning the (partial) sun will be showing up. So, be prepared and have your sunglasses ready :)
See for more info on weather forecast meteoblue using my blog's Usefull links

Partial Sun Eclips 3 days to go

The small moon (15%) above the horizon, only 3 days before the partial sun eclips next friday.
Weather forecast for friday still predict cloudy and even "zero" sunshine :(

Partial Sun Eclips 5 days to go

Weather forecast for friday : cloudy with rain :(

Hopefully this forecast changes so we can observe this fantanstic event.

See also more information via http://eclips2015.be/nl/

Third Quarter Moon

Third Quarter Moon. This pictures was taken with my Nikon D60 and 200mm lens, modified and enlarged using CS4. In the center and top,  crater Copernicus and the mountain "Montes Apenninus" can easily be observed. The mountains have a diameter of 400km. Copernicus is about 90km in diameter.

Venus - Mars : positions february and march

Venus and Mars at the evening sky - Mach 13th. The angular distance is now more than 3°. Big difference in comparison with 0,28' mid February. Below pictures show nicely the orbit from both planets and how their position changes between each other. The first picture shows Venus "below" Mars. The last one shows Mars 3° "below" venus.

Uranus should be as close to 0.17' from Mars but could not be observed due to cloud formation - unfortunately.

One week to partial suneclips

The waning crescent moon (68%) one week before the partial sun eclips on March 20th, 2015.