Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Comet C/2017 T2 Panstarrs with TLAPO80/480

Comet C/2017 T2 Panstarrs with TLAPO80/480 and Nikon D7500. It's the first time I'm observing this comet. And as with C/2019 Y1 Atlas is't also located in constellation Cassiopeia but north if it. Observation made while full moon.


Comet C/2019 Y1 Atlas with TLAPO80/480

Comet C/2019 Y1 Atlas with TLAPO80/480 and Nikon D7500. The first time I'm observing this comet. It's located in constellation Cassiopeia with a magnitude of 8.5.


Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas with TLAPO80/480

Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas with TLAPO80/480 and Nikon D7500. Picture was made while full moon. The comet is less bright the last week.


Monday, April 6, 2020

Venus and Pleiades with Bahtinov Mask

April 3, 2020, Venus in the Pleiades. Picture taken during start-up with Bahtinov Mask.



Saturday, April 4, 2020

Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas Animated Gif

On March 31, 202, the comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas was observed with TAL200K f/8.5. Pictures were taken with ZWO224MC. An animated gif was made of two pictures with timediffence of only 4min. This shows the speed of the comet across the sky.
Pictures are tiff files and slightly edited using CS4.



The animation is made using CS4 using "Window Animation" and save as Gif file and no specifics.

Venus in the Pleiades


On April 3, Venus showed up in the open starcluster "Pleiades".  This event was broadcast live with Astronomy Club "Helios" using Skype.
During the session different pictures were taken. Below picturre with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6.