Start of autumn

Today at 16h21, local time, official start of autumn. Also known as the September equinox and the moment the sun rises exactly at the east and sets directly in the west. From today onwards the sun moves across the south untill solstice, december 21.

350 Astronomical blogs and usefull links

Amazing, already 350 astronomical blogs posted. Have a look and visit my astronomical links using the page of my blog

Beautiful Sunset at Motovun Croatia

Moon ASI224MC & TAL200K

Earlier this week I was able take some pictures of the moon using the ASI224MC camera on the TAL200K.

Results were stacked using Autostakkert! and editing using CS4.

Famous craters shown : Kepler and Mercator. I put also the landing area from Surveyor 1 - the first US moonlander.

Super-Harvest Blood Moon

Sept 16, 2016 It was be possible to observe a super-harvest blood moon. Unfortunately clouds showed up without any chance to make observations.
We talk about a harvest moon when full moon happens near autumnal equinox. Beside this the moon is "very" close to the earth so we can see a "bigger" moon or super moon. And also it was a penumbral lunar eclips seeing the moon darker then normal .... that's what we missed due to the clouds.

Moon 82% - Sept 13, 2016 TAL200K & DSLR

Using my DSLR Nikon D60 on TAL200K. Picture edited using CS4. In focus, No crop.

M57 Ring Nebula ASI224MC

Practising with ASI224MC camera on my TAL200K resulted in 100 frames of each 8.5s. All pictures were stacked using RegiStax and edited using CS4. I did not made any blacks which could have used to reduce some pixel errors.

Sunspots 2885-2890

As my telescoop was still standing outside I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the sun. Pictures are taken with Nikon D60, TAL200K with self-made AstroSolar Baader Sunfilm. Limited editing done using CS4.

Source SpaceWeather.Com - Note that the small sunspots left are not seen yet !!