50 Days to go for the Lunar eclipse

On July 27th, 2018 a Lunar Eclipse can be observed in Belgium and big parts of Europe.

Solar Astrophysics

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The Sun is a facinating object to observe. But how functions our nearest star and what's happening in and outside of the Sun. Hopefully I will find many answers in this new book from Peter Foukal with the title "Solar Astrophysics" .
Once read, I will post a summary of the book.

Jupiter TAL200K ASI224MC

Clear sky yesterday evening but after 23h30 local time start of bad seeing. As from that moment it was impossible to make good pictures of Jupiter. Some time before I was able to make some picutres knowing it was not really dark. Pictures are taken with ASI224MC on TAL200K. Setting of 100ms exposure time for 180s and a Barlow x2 was used. With the Barlow x2 Jupiter became much bigger in the picture making it more easer to sharpen the image. Stacking with AutoStakkert and editing using CS4.

Sunset with Weatherstation

Beautiful sunset with in the front my Weatherstation WMR200.

Noctilucent Clouds, just a matter of time

Both Radar in Germany aswell in the UK give a signal for potential NLC. So keep your eyes open as it just a matter of time to observe NLC :)

Radar Kuhlungsborn (Germany) 
Radar Aberystwyth (UK, Wales)

Ceres near Epsilon Leo

On the evening of June 3, Ceres will be very "close" to Epsilon Lea, a star in the head of constellation Leo.

Weather Summary May 2018

The mean temperature in May 2018 was the highest compared with the last 4 years. Rainfall on the other hand was the lowest compared with previous 4 years.