22° Solar Halo @ Averbode

High clouds increase chances to observer solar halo's. Today a 22° solar halo could be seen @ Averbode. Picture taken with wide field 18mm f/4.5 1/4000s. You can see clearly the red is inside the halo.

Waxing Crescent Moon 39% Celestron (D70 400mm)

In between the clouds the moon was shining for some moments. Picture was taking using Celestron D70 f=400mm. Picture was minor edited using CS4.

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.