Weather Summary May 2016

An average month of May with 9 days of heavy rain .

Mercurius transit

Picture taken using my telescoop dobson 12". Mercurius transit a couple of minutes after L2.

SkyWatcher Polar Scope Align - v2.9

Easy to use App to find Polar star and alignment. The image is the same as shown by the SkyWatcher or other mounts. See App PS Align or Polar Scope Align (v2.9).

Meteor Crater

The Adler Plantetarium exposes a piece of the meteorite which hit Earth about 50.000 years ago in Arizona - east of Flagstaff resulting into a crater, Barringer Crater or Meteor Crater. This Ni-Fe meteorite shown is about 500g and is normally exposed in the visitor's center in Arizona which I visited in 1997.

Moon with colloseum

It's two days after full moon at the colloseum in Rome.

Visiting Adler Planetarium Chicago

The Adler Planetarium in Chicago was the first one build in the western hemisphere and is the oldest one still operating. Outside the view of the Chicago skyline is fantastic and the statue of Copernicus welcomes you. Inside different expositions eg the moon race with Gemini and Apollo 13, planets, meteorites, the history of telescopes, instruments from the past and many shows.

Transit of Mercury May 9th

Visual observation using OrionXT12 of Mercury transit was quite good even the fact some high clouds.
Picture was taken using TAL 200K on AZ EQ6 mount with Nikon D60. On top and middle you are able the observe some sunspots and below Mercury is visible as a small dot. Picture was edited using CS4.