Moon and Venus in evening sky

This evening, both the Moon as Venus, low above the south western horizon.

Lecture by Jan Janssens @ Mira

Selfie with Jan Janssens 

Attending a dutch lecture with the title "New glasses for a new solarcycle" by Jan Janssens from SIDC (Belgium) at the Public Observatory Mira in Grimbergen.
Topics were solar cycle #24 and predicting minimum for april 2020 +/- 6 months; space weather basics and major historic space weather events. At the end of the presentation an overview was provided on current active satellites and future satellites: Solar Orbiter, Proba-3 and Lagrange.

College : Trillingen van ruimte en tijd; Maastricht University

Aan de Universiteit van Maastricht vindt een college plaats dat zal handelen over Trillingen van ruimte en tijd. 

Dit zal telkens plaatsvinden op maandagavond en anaf maandagavond 13 januari tot en met maandagavond 10 februari. De lezingen worden verzorgd door Gerard Bodifee.

Earthshine

Eartshine - Moon is 10% illuminated.

Moon 10% Illuminated

In between the clouds I was able to capture the Moon which was 10% illuminated.

Congratulations : 7 year astro blogging

I started my blog in 2012.... so 7 years of astro blogging!!

Astronomical Highlights 2019

I want to summarize some of my astronomical highlights from 2019 :

- Impressive Noctilucent clouds up to zenith
- Lunar Eclipse
- Lecture of Sir Roger Penrose
- Milkyway widefield in Thailand
- Comet Iwamoto with open star cluster M36 and M38
- Transit of Mercury in Dresden (Germany) with SolarMaxIII (H-Alpha)
- Deepskyobjects : Andromeda Galaxy M31, Dumbbell Nebula M27, Omega Nebula M17
- Very bright halo's around the Sun at home, Portugal and Thailand
- Stephan's Quintet
- Solargraph with 50cl can

Nocitlucent clouds across the north-western horizon and reaching towards zenith

Full coverage of Lunar eclipse

Lecture by the famous Sir Roger Penrose

The bright Milky Way in Thailand with Jupiter, Saturn and of course constellation Scorpius

Comet Iwamoto together with open star cluster M36 and M38

Mercury transit in Dresden (Germany) in H-Alpha with SolarMaxIII

Deepskyobjects : Omega Nebula M17, Dumbbell Nebula M27 and Andromeda Galaxy M31

This year I could take some picture of very bright Halo's, one at home, Portugal (Viego) and Thailand (Kanchanaburi)

Distant Deepsky object Stephan's quintet : more then 200million lightyears from earth

Solargraph with 50cl can