Sunday, March 22, 2015

The moon 45h after the sun eclips




Only 45h after the sun eclips the moon is about 8%. A couple of degrees north, Venus shows up very bright at the evening sky.


Saturday, March 21, 2015

Partial Sun Eclips - Enlarged Picture

The sun 9 minutes before max of the partial eclips. The picture is made of 6 frames each taken via my telescope OrionXT12 with barlow x2 and my camera Nikon D60. The opening of the telescope was foreseen with a Baader filter.
Location : Malmedy - Belgium


Partial Sun Eclips Progress


Friday, March 20, 2015

Start of Spring

Exactly 23h45 the spring starts. This is called equinox and happens when the middle of the sun crosses the equator line.

Partial Suneclips Succesfull


This morning weather was still cloudy and this would last untill 10am according meteoblue. Looking at the different options, I took the decission to drive 150km east towards Malmedy. I did arrive just before the first contact and there was still some fog but every minute the weather became better.
The view was fantastic while unloading the material and setting up my camera and telescoop.



The picture above was taken with a normal camera and using ocular projection from my telescope orionxt12.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Partial Sun Eclips One day to go

Weather forecast changed towards partial cloudy. After fog in the morning the (partial) sun will be showing up. So, be prepared and have your sunglasses ready :)
See for more info on weather forecast meteoblue using my blog's Usefull links

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Partial Sun Eclips 3 days to go

The small moon (15%) above the horizon, only 3 days before the partial sun eclips next friday.
Weather forecast for friday still predict cloudy and even "zero" sunshine :(