Mercury and Pleiades

This evening, low above the north-western horizon, Mercury and Pleiades.

One week to go : ATT Essen 2021 Digital

The famous ATT (Astronomy and Technology Meeting) in Essen is a trade show especially for amateur astronomers and one of the largest event of its kind in Europe. This year the event will go digital with different speakers and more then 30 exibiters. All this will go live on May 8, 2021 from AM10h.

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Comet Neowise C/2020 F3 reworked with APP betaversion 1.083 beta1

My pictures from last year of the bright comet Neowise C/2020 F3 are reworked using AstroPixelProcessor (APP) beta version 1.083 beta 1. With this version the option comet can be used under chapter 4 "register". There is also a way to clean the picture from startrails under chapter 6 "integrate" by choosing filter "MAD rejection" (and integrate mode avg or median) with kappa low (8) and high (2).  Last year I used DeepSkyStacker to stack the pictures. 

My picture of Mars published in magazine Heelal

My picture of Mars near Open Starcluster NGC1746 is published in last edition of magazine Heelal (volume 66, number 5, May 2021). Nice recognition :)

Mars and Open Starcluster M35 April 25

Some high clouds but I was able to make some pictures. The conditions were better then yesterday but not perfect at all.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6; ISO100, RGB 7x25s, darks, flats and darkflats. Stacking with APP and final editing using CS4 and Noise reduction with DeNoise AI.

Mars and Open Starcluster M35 April 24

This evening Mars together with Open Starcluster M35. Seeing was bad with high clouds.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480; ISO100, RGB 14x15s, darks, flats and darkflats. Stacking using APP and final editing with CS4.

Mars and Open Starcluster M35 April 24 - April 29

Mars on April 25 around 10pm near Open Starcluster M35 - Source Stellarium

As from today, April 25 untill April 29, Mars can be observed near Open Starcluster Messier M35 (NGC2168 Cr 82 MEL41). The closest distance with M35 will happen on April 26 with Mars only 0.5° away. Other objects of interst near Mars are also Open Starclusters IC2156, IC2158 (CR80) and NGC2158 (CR81 MEL40).

Last month I was able to capture Mars with Open Starcluster NGC1746.