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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Orion Nebula M42 - Pictures Stacked using DeepSkyStacker

Using DeepSkyStacker to stack pictures from last night of M42 Orion Nebula. Editing was done with CS4.


Friday, December 30, 2016

M42 Orion Nebula

Temperatures as low as -6°C, clear sky but still average seeing. Visual observations of M1, M42, M45, M78, M79, M81, M82. Around 22h00 meteor at 15° above the horizon and in the south East moving in the direction of the south. Photographs made of M1, M42 and IC434.


Thursday, December 29, 2016

Misty Weather

Even the fact I can see some stars, the sky is covered with mist. The street lights reflect the light due to the small droplets so badly that it is not possible to make any observations.



Tuesday, December 27, 2016

The sun today - PST comparison with SDO data

Clear skies so time to observe the sun with PST 40. One big prominence at 11h and smaller ones at 4h and 9h. I made a comparison with data from SDO and the result is shown below. I must say that the comparison is very good. My picture was made afocal using a 8-24mm zoomlens and edited using CS4.


Monday, December 26, 2016

No sunspots but bright sundogs

No sunspots today but due to low and high clouds it was ideal for observing some bright sundogs.