Filament on the Sun

This afternoon a huge filament is covering the Sun. This can be seen in H-Alpha. Picture is taken with Nikon D7500 on SolarMax3 d70/400 f/5.7. The insert is taken from the Gong H-Alpha network.

Flame Nebula

Flame Nebula during a waxing gibbous moon (90%). The horsehead nebula is too faint as the moon is shining out the famous nebula.
Picture taken with Nikon D7500 on TLAPO 80/480 f/6 ISO800 and 46 minutes exposure. Stacking with DeepSkyStacker and final editing with CS4.

Supermoon Coming

One day to go for full moon and it will be a Supermoon. Full moon of february will have the closest distance Earth-Moon this year 2019, 356 761 km.

Moon Febrruay 17, UT20h

Jupiter Venus and Saturn in the morning sky

All three planets can be seen in the morning sky. Venus and Saturn are "close" above the eastern horizon, Jupiter almost loacted in the South.

Sun in H-Alpha

No sunspots today and only small prominences on the Sun. On the other hand one big filament on the disk. The picture was taken with Nikon D7500 on SolarMax 70/400  DS BS15 and editing using CS4. The get the picture sharpened, it is set as black/white.

Galaxy NGC 2903

Beautiful galaxy NGC 2903. Only 180s exposure and spiralarms are already seen.

NGC3115 Spindle Galaxy and Millenium Galaxy Catalogue MGC

When looking at my astropicture of NGC3115, the Spindle Galaxy, I saw a blur south of the galaxy. At first I was thinking of a camera fault but when uploading the picture in Astronometry it showed aswell a blur as a result. Interesting in fact, astronometry did not put any reference. So I started searching around and found the NGC3115 galaxy to be associated with two galaxies of which one is MGC-1-26-21, located exactly on the same spot as on my picture. 

What is MGC : this is the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue.