ISS Moon Transit

On December 8, 2021, UT17h06, the International Space Station - ISS - was flying in front of the Moon. This was easy observed with the naked eye. I made different pictures but was unable to get a sharp picture of the station. The pictures shows the ISS twice.. as the picture was stacked. 

Awards ARISS SSTV MAI75 Experiment December 1

I received my Awards from SSTV December MAI75 experiment with ISS Expedition 66 (december 1, 2021).

Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) using APP 1.083 Beta2

On the morning of December 8th, 2021 I was able to take some pictures of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) which is located in constellation serpens. 

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6; 30x30s ISO1600, darks, bias, flats and darkflats. Stacking with APP 1.083 Beta1 (comet option) and final editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)

Observation of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) which is moving "fast" between the stars and currently located in constellation serpens. The comet is not yet visible with the naked eye.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6; 30x30s ISO1600, darks, bias, flats and darkflats. Stacking with APP (comet option) and final editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.

MAI 75 SSTV Expedition 66 December 1 Event - Results

Today the ISS was submitting images to Earth as part of the MAI75 SSTV Expedition 66 event. I used the websdr from Nürnberg (http://nbgsdr.ddns.net/) and MMSSTV software. The results were rather poor. I was able to receive 5 pictures but not one was really good.

Darth Vader's Galaxy NGC936

As a Star Wars fan, the object NGC 936 is realy cool. The galaxy looks like a Star Wars Empire (advanced) TIE fighter and was named Darth Vader's Galaxy. It's located in constellation Cetus and is about 60 million lightyears away from Earth. It forms a pair with NGC941. When comparing the field of view with SIMBAD we will find more then 160 galaxies aswell as Quasar 4C 01.11 with a redshift z=2.038.

Setting : Nikon D7500, TAL200K f/8.5, ZWO Mini Guidescope 30, guide camera ASI224MC.
Image : ISO400, Lights 12x90s; 4x300s, Darks, Flats, Bias and Dark Flats.

Software : N.I.N.A, PHD2, APP, CS4, DeNoise AI.

MAI-SSTV Experiment Dec 1 & 2

The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) is planning for a SSTV experiment session for December 1 and 2. Timings are listed below but could be changed :

    December 1 – Start: 12:10 UT. Stop: 19:10 UT
    December 2 – Start: 11:40 UT. Stop: 17:20 UT

SSTV mode is traditional PD120 and images will be transmitted on 145.800 MHz.

See also my previous blog on MAI experiment via this link