M33 Triangulum Galaxy with COAST

The Triangulum Galaxy M33 is the most distant object which can be seen with the naked eye (during a perfect dark sky conditions); the galaxy is located in constellation Triangulum and about 2.73 million ly away from Earth. Together with Andromeda galaxy (2.54 million ly) and our MilkyWay, the Triangulum galaxy is the third biggest galaxy of the Local Group.

The picture was taken with COAST telescope (a C14 f/ 10 with Fli Proline KAF0900 camera) on Tenerife. The picture is a combination of H-Alpha, OIII, SII and mono (180s). Stacking was done using APP and final editing with CS4 and DeNoise AI.

Storm over Belgium - NOAA 18 Image UT9h57

Currently a storm is chasing over Belgium ... see my rework NOAA 18 picture from this morning.

NOAA 18 UT 9h57 Weather Image Europe

Today's weather image from NOAA18 UT9h57. Allignment wasn't a succes except above our region :)

Open star cluster NGC654 with a Supergiant

Open star cluster NGC654 is located in constellation Cassiopeia nd about 7800ly away from Earth. The bright star seen south of the cluster is a supergiant classified as F5Ia.

Setting: Nikon D7500, TAL200K f/8.5, ISO6400 and 10x60s exposure time. Cameracontrol using DigiCamControl and stellarium connected to mount. Stacking with APP and final editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

My first succes downloading NOAA weather Image

Today I was able to succesfully downloading a weather image from one of the three NOAA satellites. The image was taken from NOAA 18 using ESA ESTEC Websdr. The soundwave was processed using WXtoIMG and the result was edited using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

SN2020jfo in Galaxy M61 still visible after 170days

I requested a new picture of M61 with the COAST C14 telescope on Tenerife. Comparing this pictures with previous pictures of SN2020jfo in May (my picture with TAL200k) and those one made with COAST in July, it seems to me the supernova is still visible. This time the M61 picture was much better then the previous one earlier this month, so comparing was much easier. See also my previous blog.

Sunspot AR2781 and Helioviewer

With support of Helioviewer I was able to define P and B0 of the Sun :

P is the position angle of the north end of the axis of rotation, measured positive when east of the north point of the disk and 
Bo is the heliographic latitude of the centre of the sun disk.