Weather Summary September

September was a warm and dry month with only  28 liter of rain /m2. Interesting to see is the 1 air frost day on September 30th. This is first air frost day since 2014.

Cloud formation

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Beautiful cloud formation #averbode

Arecibo Message

On November 16th, 1974 the Arecibo telescope was used  to send a message in the direction of the Hercules constellation. More specific in the direction op Globular Star Cluser Messier M13.

M13 contains approximately 300.000 stars and is located at a distance of 25.000 light years from Earth.

The message is build around 1679 pulses of binary codes (zero and one's) and contains information about our numerical system, chemical elements, human beings, our planet, our solarsystem and the telescope itself.  It was sent by the Arecibo telescope using radio signals.

Photokina 2018

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Arrival at the annual imaging unlimited fair at Cologne.

Planet Neptune

Picture of Planet Neptune.

Planetary Nebula M27 and M57

Both planetary nebula M27 (Dumbbell Nebula) as the Ring Nebula (M57) are photographed using Nikon D7500 with TAL200K f/8.5. Darks are taken and raw pictures converted to DNG. Stacking with DeepSkyStacker and final editing using CS4.

Bubble Nebula NGC7635

Astropictures of the Bubble Nebula NGC7635 both with TLAPO80/480 f/6 as TAL200K f/8.5. The Bubble Nebula is located in the constellation Cassiopeia and located at a distance of 7500ly from Earth.

In both cases darks were taken, and raw files converted to DNG. DeepSkyStacker is used for stacking and CS4 for final editing.