Sunday, December 22, 2019

Astronomical Highlights 2019

I want to summarize some of my astronomical highlights from 2019 :

- Impressive Noctilucent clouds up to zenith
- Lunar Eclipse
- Lecture of Sir Roger Penrose
- Milkyway widefield in Thailand
- Comet Iwamoto with open star cluster M36 and M38
- Transit of Mercury in Dresden (Germany) with SolarMaxIII (H-Alpha)
- Deepskyobjects : Andromeda Galaxy M31, Dumbbell Nebula M27, Omega Nebula M17
- Very bright halo's around the Sun at home, Portugal and Thailand
- Stephan's Quintet
- Solargraph with 50cl can

Nocitlucent clouds across the north-western horizon and reaching towards zenith


Full coverage of Lunar eclipse


Lecture by the famous Sir Roger Penrose


The bright Milky Way in Thailand with Jupiter, Saturn and of course constellation Scorpius



Comet Iwamoto together with open star cluster M36 and M38


Mercury transit in Dresden (Germany) in H-Alpha with SolarMaxIII



Deepskyobjects : Omega Nebula M17, Dumbbell Nebula M27 and Andromeda Galaxy M31







This year I could take some picture of very bright Halo's, one at home, Portugal (Viego) and Thailand (Kanchanaburi)




Distant Deepsky object Stephan's quintet : more then 200million lightyears from earth


Solargraph with 50cl can