Picture of the Week : my photo from Mercury and Pleiades

My picture from Mercury with the Pleiades on May 2nd, 2021 was selected as the Picture of the Week. This was published in AstroLab Hemeljournaal of May 10th.

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Venus and Mercury in evening twilight

Yesterday evening, during evening twilight, I could observe Venus only 3° above the north-western horizon. North of Venus, planet Mercury is visible.

Half an hour later Mercury could be seen with the naked eye.

 

Bright Halo

From this morning onwards the Sun is accompagnied by a Halo. A bright and 360' one could be observed around midday.

Mercury and Pleiades

This evening, low above the north-western horizon, Mercury and Pleiades.

One week to go : ATT Essen 2021 Digital

The famous ATT (Astronomy and Technology Meeting) in Essen is a trade show especially for amateur astronomers and one of the largest event of its kind in Europe. This year the event will go digital with different speakers and more then 30 exibiters. All this will go live on May 8, 2021 from AM10h.

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Comet Neowise C/2020 F3 reworked with APP betaversion 1.083 beta1

My pictures from last year of the bright comet Neowise C/2020 F3 are reworked using AstroPixelProcessor (APP) beta version 1.083 beta 1. With this version the option comet can be used under chapter 4 "register". There is also a way to clean the picture from startrails under chapter 6 "integrate" by choosing filter "MAD rejection" (and integrate mode avg or median) with kappa low (8) and high (2).  Last year I used DeepSkyStacker to stack the pictures. 

My picture of Mars published in magazine Heelal

My picture of Mars near Open Starcluster NGC1746 is published in last edition of magazine Heelal (volume 66, number 5, May 2021). Nice recognition :)