The Great Red Spot (GRS) is seen at the side of the planet.
Pascal Hilkens Astro Home Page
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Jupiter
The Great Red Spot (GRS) is seen at the side of the planet.
Livestream South America Total Solar Eclipse
On July 2nd, NASA will Livestream the Total Solar Eclipse via NASA TV. Totality @ La Serena (Chile) begins at 22h38 (Local Time) and ends at 22h40. For live coverage see this link.
Friday, June 28, 2019
Jupiter with ADC
This evening I set up my telescope with TAL200K and ASI224MC camera. A barlow x2 was used including my new ADC. Stacking was done with AutoStakkert! and final editing using CS4.
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Pictures of NLC of June 21, 2019
A selection of pictures made on Friday June 21, 2019 during impressive outbreak of noctilucent clouds.
Nikon D7500 Lens
10-24mm f/3.5 – Setting f/6.3 14mm ISO400 3s UT:22h23
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Nikon D7500 Lens 10-24mm f/3.5 – Setting f/6.3 14mm ISO320 3s UT:22h25 |
Nikon D7500 Lens 10-24mm f/3.5 – Setting f/6.3 18mm ISO1250 8s UT:23h30 |
Noctilucent clouds this morning
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Noctilucent Clouds Outbreak
I made different pictures and made some timelapses. One hour later most NLC were gone and I moved to another location with a better view on the horizon. The second picture was taken from this location, one hour later. As you see, the NLC's are only above the horizon and the outbreak was done.
European SpaceTalks with Frank De Winne
About 70 people listened how ISS expedition crew 20 experienced their space trip starting from the training, launch with Soyuz TMA-15, the life on board the spacestation and the safe landing. All stayed for 6 months (186 days) in space.
The audience had the chance to ask all kind of questions which were full energizend answerred by the astronauts.
Fltr: Astronauts Frank De Winne, Bob Thirks, Roman Romanenko and Myself |
Frank De Winne discussed in the second presentation the 3 year outlook of ESA (Space 19+) with focus on getting to the Moon by 2024. A little was talked about getting to Mars as there is still a lot work to be done. He gave the example of the very complex program of sampling 300grams of Mars soil and bringing it to Earth. The Space19+ enveloppe program will be discussed end of 2019 by the EU in order to get approval.
ISS Expedition 20 Crew Signed Postcard |
The event took about 2,5 hours and was well received... mission completed.
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