Milky Way above Ko Pha-ngan

Waiting for a clear sky above Ko Pha-ngan (Thailand) was worthwile. At first I thought still to see some clouds but ... it was the milky way. Not being prepared and not having any equipment with me I managed to make some pictures. Pictures were not taken in RAW, apenture was unfortunately not 100% open (f/5.6) and pictures were manualy taken. But even then it's a great picture with an unforgattable view from this Island.

The Moon : Between dream and reality

Zonnekijkdag Helios Averbode

Helios Averbode staat vandaag vanaf 13h00 aan Het Moment van de Abdij van Averbode. Kom gerust een kijkje nemen.
Hierbij ook al wat informatie over de zon. Zie link naar de presentatie.

Zonnekijkdag Averbode

Vandaag is iedereen welkom op de zonnekijkdag. Vanaf 13h00 staat sterrenvereniging Helios Averbode aan "Het Moment" van de abdij van Averbode. Met telescopen met speciale filters zal het mogelijk zijn om naar de zon te kijken, natuurlijk wanneer er geen wolken zijn.

Saturn

Saturn is currently very low above the horizon and thus impacted by bad seeing.

50.000 Visitors

WOW .. reaching 50.000 visitors. Thanks!!

South American Total Solar Eclipse now Live

See NASA TV via this link.

Jupiter

Last night again I made some pictures of Jupiter. I used the updated SharpCap 3.2 caputure software. Softwaresetting on Raw32. The optics consist of TAL200K with Barlow x2 and ADC. As camera I used ZWO ASI224MC. In total I took some 20' of pictures and stacking with AutoStakkert!2 and final editing using CS4. Seeing was overal bad.

Weather Summary June

June 2019 had  8 raindays and temperatures rather high with a new record for highest temperature in June (since the beginning of my weather station :) )