Draconid Meteor Shower this evening?

When the sky is clear get a chance to go outside this evening to watch for meteors. The annual peak of Draconid meteors is expected this evening around midnight. Last month the parent comet,
21P Giacobini-Zinner, reached its perihelion. It means there is a small chance the number of meteors could peak.  But watch yourself :)

Startrail

Startrail taken on the morning of October 5th, UT2h-3h. Picture taken in the direction of South-East with Nikon D7500 f/3.5 10mm. Pictures stacked using Startrails v2.3

Freek Roelofs & Marcel Vonk

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Afgelopen weekend vond in Oostende het 32ste VVS/JVS weekend plaats. Diverse onderwerpen kwamen aan bod maar 2 lezingen sprongen eruit. Twee topsprekers waren aanwezig die uitzettingen gaven over Event Horizon Telescope : de eerste foto van een zwart gat (Freek Roelofs). Een tweede lezing ging over Emergente Zwaartekracht en het donkere Heelal (Marcel Vonk)

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Spiral Galaxy NGC891

In the constellation Andromeda you can see an unbarred spiral Galaxy known as NGC891. Visually it's difficult to see and shows up as a very faint blur. I took some pictures at the moment the moon was 98% illulinated. That's why the picture is not really dark. The galaxy is loacted at a distance of 30 million light years from Earth. This is 15 times further then the Andromeda Galaxy M31.
The picture was taken with my nikon D7500 on TALAPO80/480 f/6. Darks are included and stacking with DeepSkyStacker. Final editing in CS4.

Geostationary Satellites

When looking at the pictures I made of the planet Neptune, I noticed a couple of traces.  Most probably these traces are satellties, interesting to notice is the fact the pictures shows three "satellites" 'in line'.

Weather Summary September

September was a warm and dry month with only  28 liter of rain /m2. Interesting to see is the 1 air frost day on September 30th. This is first air frost day since 2014.