Sun Full Disk AR3181 and AR3182

 

The Sun today, January 7, 2023 with Sunspots AR3176, 3177, 3180, 3181, 3182 and 3183. The picture was taken with DSLR Nikon D7500 on TAL200K with ND3.8 and OIII filter. The picture is a mosaic of two pictures which are combined using ICE (Image Composite Editor). Sharpening is done with IMPPG and final editing using CS4. False colour are added.

The Sun in OIII

Between the clouds I could take some pictures of the active Sun. Pictures taken using my OIII filter.

Setting: TAL200K f/8.5, Nikon D7500, ND3.8 filter and OIII filter

Software: CS4

Planetary Astronomy Book

Arrival of my book on how to observe and image planets.

My first halo in 2023

My first halo this year 2023. A very bright halo in Holwerd (Friesland, Netherlands)

My Blog Statistics - Visits & Posts

A visual presentation of my @blogposts and #visits to my Astro Page blog.

Total Solar Eclipse 2024 - Mexico-US-Canada

The Total Solar Eclipse of Monday April 8, 2024 crosses Mexico, US and Canada. About 32 million US people live in the totality path and the weather is a challenge.

Both Mexico as Texas are still below 50% cloud coverage with the Mexican coast about 35%.

For more information about the weather statistics around April 1 for the totality path : see this link.

See also this website of Xavier Jubier for timings and locations of the solar eclipse.

My astronomical Highlights 2022

An interesting astronomical year "2022" with some amazing "wow" moments and again great learnings. I had to limit the list but these are my astronomical highlights:

#1 Visiting European Gravitational Observatory (Virgo) at Cascina (Italy); thx to my family

#2 A real interessing session and meeting Heino Falcke together with my collegue Walter 

#3 My best picture of Mars using IR/UV blocker 

#4 Solar Image with a detailed prominance

#5 Jupiter with Moon Io

Worth mentioning:

#6 Solar Image with Ellerman Bombs

#7 My first astroweekend @Berzieux (France) a making friends with Adriano

#8 Solar Image with full disk of the H-Alpha Sun 

#9 Meridian Line @Bologna (Italy) thx to collegue Patrick W

#10 Saturn at opposition