Friday, May 31, 2019

Starlink Passes available

Both the Starlink leader as the Starlink Trails are still visible. When? See Heavens-above.com.  As the coming nights will be clear, great opportunity to observe and photograph them.

My Lunar Eclipse pictures published


The total lunar eclipse on January 21, 2019 was entirely photographed. Great to see my pictures are published in Heelal, volume 64 , number 4, april 2019.




Thursday, May 30, 2019

NGC7380 and Wizard Nebula

Open Star Cluster NGC7380 surrounded by reddish Wizard Nebula. Picture taken with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6. Deepskystakker used for stacking and CS4 for final editing.


Open Star Cluster IC4756

Open Star Cluster IC4756 is located at a distance of 1300ly from Earth.



Jupiter Facebook Likes

Great to see my picture getting "Likes" :) - Not bad getting 37 likes from this VVS Forum.


Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Jupiter

I reworked my pictures taken earlier this week on May 25th, 2019.

Reduced colors

No editing

Prominences, Plages and Filament with SolarMax3


Some more pictures of the Sun this morning. All pictures taken with ASI224MC on SolarMax 3 70/400 f/5.7 DS BF15. AutoStakkert!2 used for stacking and final editing with CS4. Both left en right of the sun's disk some prominences. On the disk itself some plages and one big filament.