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This evening this evening is on fire!

RE: Halo 22

You dramatically grow my interest in space... thanks for sharing this. So fascinating... Nature gifts the world with scenes of such beauty.

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Subject: Halo 22

Almost an entire day it was possible to see a very very bright halo around the Sun. In the morning it could be seen above Vigo, at noon time the halo was 360' above Redendela.
I never saw such a bright halo before and for so long.

Halo 22

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Almost an entire day it was possible to see a very very bright halo around the Sun. In the morning it could be seen above Vigo, at noon time the halo was 360' above Redendela.
I never saw such a bright halo before and for so long.

Halo Moon

Almost a full Halo around the Moon.

Moon, Saturn and Jupiter in the morning sky

Clear sky with -0,5°C and the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter in the morning sky.

Final C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto with M36 & M38

Not really pleased with the results of my Iwamoto pictures, I started to do something different. In stead of taking the ISO 3200 or ISO 6400, I took the ISO 1600 pictures.The Nikon Raw was converted to DNG and editing with CS4. Unsharped Mask was used but this time the threshold is increased. The pictures looks more sharp with the comet still bright enough to distinguish from the background stars. The open star clusters M36 and M38 are easy to recognize.

C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto near M36 & M38

Comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto near open star cluster M36 and M38. Picture taken on Feb 27, 2019 with Nikon D7500 on TLAPO80/480 f/6 and setting ISO6400 for 30s. DNG file and dark used for editing with CS4.