Thursday, July 21, 2016

CalSky.com

If you want to see the ISS or other satellites crossing the moon or suns disk, the website CalSky can help you finding it out. It shows the nearest place where to go for observing the crossing.
See here for the link to the CalSky website.
This website give also other very detailed information and calculations.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Noctilucent Clouds - Use of Radar from Leibniz


Clear sky means also good news for observing noctilucent clouds - without an open sky it's anyway hopeless. The radar of the Leibniz Institute can help to predict your chances, but with last night noctilucent clouds above Averbode the radar did not show much movement.
Find here the link to the Radar and some prints taken the last days.


Sunspots AR 2565 & 2567 B&W


Some more editing of the pictures taken of the sunspots AR 2565 & 2567.  This time pictures are put on black/White and sharpen using unsharp masks. Never thought I would get this great result.

Noctilucent clouds in Averbode

This morning I could observe a few and faint noctilucent clouds above the horizon of Averbode (Belgium). The picture was taken 1h12m before sunrise.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Big Sunspots AR2565 & 2567

Two big sunpsots are now visible on the sun and one is unstable having a beta-gamma magnetic field. The picture below are made using TAL200K with Baader ND5.0 sunfilter.




Sunday, July 17, 2016

Saturnus with ASI224MC & TAL200K

Using my AZEQ6 with TAL 200K together with ASI224MC I was able to take some first pictures of Saturnus. Stacking was done using RegiStax 6 and final editing with CS4.  Some blur is still visible and will be worked when time :)



Waxing Gibbous Moon 90%

Almost full moon - moderate seeing. Picture was edited using CS4.