Helios Sun Observing Day in Heelal

You can read a summary of Helios Sun Observing Day (July 3rd) in the magazine "Heelal" - Vol.61, nr. 10, October 2016, p341.

Rainbow

Rainbow above Averbode this afternoon. If you watch carefully you will see a double rainbow... but it's very faint.

Weather Summary September

A rather warm month and very dry, with 28 dry days.

Bright Sun Dogs

This afternoon the sky showed some high faint clouds which resulted in bright sun dogs.

Photokina 2016 - Cologne

Visiting the biggest trade fair of imaging, camera's and video in Cologne, Germany.  Testing of new lenses, camera's and discovering new gadgets.

As Nikon fan I was able to test different camara's and lenses.

Also interesting was guiding equipment for use on tripods and made for wide fields photographs. Below guiding Mini Star Adventurer is build by Skywatcher and will be next month for sale.

At the end I bought a special gadget for my smartphone, a Pro Clip Lens Fish Eye 180° from Kenko. The results so far are very cool !! Image below made without editing.

Halo around full moon

On sept 16, 2016 clouds prevented the penumbral eclipse of the moon. In stead we could observe halo's around the moon as clouds were sometimes very faint.

Sun Pillar above Averbode

This evening just before sunset, a very bringht sun pillar could be observed for some time. This atmospheric phenomenon is caused by the reflection of sun light by ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.