The evening of June 16, 2018 was very exciting. Clouds dissapeared slowly and the Moon and Venus showed up after Sunset. Low at the North West horizon both Venus and the Moon were easy to spot and very bright. Picture taken using 18-200lens on Nikon D7500.
During set up of my TAL200K a very bright fireball lighted up the sky. Around UT21h11 a white fireball crossed the sky in the direction of the South to South East. At the end the fireball fell into different green pieces. Wow what an event.
The fireball was reported via the Meteor website and has the reporting number #143001. I reported the fireball also on Twitter and immediately feedback came from others who saw the fireball in the Netherlands (Brabant).
I made some pictures of Jupiter with TAL200K and ASI224MC. I used barlow x2 and about 20 captures were taken of each 1 minute. Seeing was variable with some very bad and some good results. Capturing was done using SharpCap2.8; stacking completed with AutoStakkert and editing using CS4.
The Great Red Spot (GRS) is recognizable and bright enough to capture on the pictures.
After midnight at UT22h14 pictures taken from a Iridium Flare (Iridium 80) and a couple of minutes later a slow meteor crossed the sky in the direction from south east to north west.
