Sun Pillar and Sundogs

This evening some bright Sundogs at both sides of the Sun.

During sunset and also after sunset I was able to capture a bright Sun Pillar. A Sun pillar is rather rare and are created with six-sided shaped ice chrystals are lying nearly flat when falling down to the ground.

Size of Prominences - Sun in H-alpha

How big are prominences? I took yesterdays picture I made from the Sun and added Earth (on scale) to compare ... amazing! The bright prominence is a little more then 5x times the size of Earth.. 33.000km.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and SolarMaxIII 70/400 f/5.7; ISO400 and 1/30s exposure. Raw data converted to DNG and editing using CS4. 

 

Sun H-alpha with Prominences

This afternoon the Sun could be observed with a couple of huge prominences.

NGC2264 Christmas Tree Cluster

Using my TAL200K with Nikon D7500 to capture the Christmas Tree Cluster.

Partial Solar Eclipse in Belgium June 10 2021

On June 10, 2021 a partial Sun Eclipse will take place and will be visible almost over all Europe.
For my nearest town, Diest,  with an 26% coverage, timings are (local time):

Start : 11h18 and Ending : 13h26 

Credit : Andrew Sinclair

For more information see also this link

M45 Pleiades

The Pleiades, also known as Messier M45 and the Seven Sisters is located in constellation Taurus and about 4000 light years away from Earth.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6. 

    - Session 1 : ISO800-6400 81x30s

    - Session 2 : ISO1250 60x60s

Cameracontrol using DigiCamControl. Stacking with APP and final editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

Kemble's Cascade NGC1501 NGC1502

Kemble's Cascade, NGC1501 and NGC1502. The picture is a mosaic of two pictures.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6.