Timelapse Orion

On the evening of Jan 24th I made a timelapse using my Nikon D7500. I centered on constellation Orion for 2hours.

See this link for the Timelapse Video.

Year End ARISS SSTV ISS Expedition 66 Event - Certificates

Between december 26 and december 31st I was able to receive 8 out of 12 SSTV images from the ISS. Unfortunately, many of them had poor quality. I was using the WebSDR from Nurnberg. Nürnberg - Empfang aus 70m Höhe | WebSDR N (nbgsdr.ddns.net)

I submitted 11 requests for certificates... with 100% success!

This is a link to my blog with usefull links for requesting SSTV Certificates.

Double rainbow

This afternoon the sky was colored with a very bright double rainbow. The dark Alexander's band inside the two bows is clearly visible. Inside the primary rainbow it also the see green and purple supernumerary bows. 

Happy New Astronomical Year 2022

 

Year End ARISS SSTV Event ISS Expedition 66

Still 2 days to go to download SSTV images send by ISS expedition 66. All images are related to historical lunar missions. So far I received 7 out of 12 images of which have poor quality. I'm using the WebSDR from Nurnberg. Nürnberg - Empfang aus 70m Höhe | WebSDR N (nbgsdr.ddns.net)

See previous blogpost on X-Mas SSTV event.

Mercury Transit May 9 2016 with ASI224MC and PIPP

I was cleaning up my astrodata and found some AVI-movies from the Mercury Transit of May 9, 2016. Some editing was done but always without a good result. Today I installed PIPP software (Planetary Imaging PreProcessor) to rework the AVI-movies (setting : Solar Close Up and AFB/AOI square on the solar edge). Next I used Autostakkert! 2.6.8 to stack the images (setting : Planets, max. treshhold and all "edge" boxes selected). The images are edited using CS4 and DeNoise AI. And the result... awesome. 

See also my earlier blogpost on the Mercury Transit

Astro Page #Visits

My Astro Page was visited many times... since the start in 2012 already more the 120.000 times.