Starparty - Sterrenkijkdagen

March 27 & 28 Belgium National Starparty. See also http://www.sterrenkijkdagen.be/
Helios will be in Langdorp - Aarschot on March 28, 2015.

Moon 16% at the evening sky

The moon, illuminated 16%. Picture taken with my travelscope D70/400mm and edited using CS4.
In the center you recognize Mare Crisium or Sea of Crises - 418km wide in which Luna 24 landed on August 18, 1976, and north of this Cleomedes crater - 125km

The moon 45h after the sun eclips

Only 45h after the sun eclips the moon is about 8%. A couple of degrees north, Venus shows up very bright at the evening sky.

Partial Sun Eclips - Enlarged Picture

The sun 9 minutes before max of the partial eclips. The picture is made of 6 frames each taken via my telescope OrionXT12 with barlow x2 and my camera Nikon D60. The opening of the telescope was foreseen with a Baader filter.
Location : Malmedy - Belgium

Partial Sun Eclips Progress

Start of Spring

Exactly 23h45 the spring starts. This is called equinox and happens when the middle of the sun crosses the equator line.

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.