Supermoon on November 14th- really Super?

What's in the name? On November 14th 12h21 MET the distance moon-earth will be as close as 356509km. Why is this important? It's because this happens on almost the same moment when the moon is full (14h52 MET). It's calculated that the moon will be 14% "bigger" and about 30% "more bright". As all this happens during daytime, best observation is the morning of Nov 14th or at evenings. Will you notice the difference... not really.
The last time the moon was that close happened on Jan 26th, 1948 (356461km). On November 25th, 2034 the moon will be even closer with 356445km.
So why should you look at the moon? Only it's because you know that it was about 68 years ago the moon was that close. Super right?

Tiangong 2 - Visible

This evening and upcoming evenings and of course when clouds do agree to open, you can observe the Chinese vessel Tiangong 2 above the southern horizon.  For Belgium see timings below, for other locations see website Heavens-Above.

Launch of new Nikon D5600

Nikon will shortly launch the new Nikon DSLR camera Nikon D5600.
See also Nikon Website

Picture in nieuwsblad

Today, my picture of the abbey of Averbode was published in the newspaper "Het Nieuwsblad".

Solargraph missing in action

One of my pinhole camera's are installed near the abbey of Averbode since mid June - see blog. This morning during a routine inspection I noticed the camera dissapeared. Bad luck! I still have one camera running at home which I hope will make it till december 21 :)

If you want to make your own pinhole camera capturing a solargraph - see my webpage DIY Solargraph. 

View on the abbey of Averbode - Pinhole camera was installed in this area.

The Sun Today

In between the clouds, I could take some pictures of the sun using PST40.

October 2016 Weather Summary

The weather from October 2016 is comparable with the one from October 2015. Avg temperatures rather warm and it with only 35,9mm rain it was also a dry month.