Jupiter

Jupiter this evening; moderate seeing as Jupiter was still low above the horizon. Picture taken with Orion XT12 and ASI224MC; stacking using RegiStax and final editing using CS4.

Moon 96%

Beautifull morning with a clear sky and 3°C. The moon is low above the south-west horizon and 96% illulinated.

Weather Summary April

In comparison with previous 4 year, this April 2018 is the most warm and the most wet. I registrated only one air frost day; last year it was 10 days.

Lecture on Space-X @ Urania

On May 26th, a Lecture will be given on Space-X @Urania, Antwerp. With this Lecture, Urania will officialy end it's Calender Year 2017-2018. In September, the new year 2018-2019 will be kicked off.

Jupiter Opposition on May 8&9

Jupiter, the largest and most massive planet of our solar system is at opposition on May 8 & 9. The day after, the planet will be closest to Earth, which is about 4.4 AU or 65MM Km. This all means that the planet is visible the entire night. Have fun.

The Sun Unleashed : monster filament in UV

Credit NASA GSFC SDO

In 2011 a moderate flare erupted from the sun, but after that flare eruption a enormous ejection of plasma was seen in UV. The timelapse shows this ejection and how it "falls" back on the sun following the magnetic field lines - which in normal condition are invisible.

Click Here for the video Time Lapse.

Heavy Rainfall

This morning my rain gauge showed a rainfall of 44 liter/m2. It's not a record, but still a lot of rain. It's also 50% of the rainfall so far during the month of april (82 liter/m2).