Total Solar Eclipse 2024 - Mexico-US-Canada

The Total Solar Eclipse of Monday April 8, 2024 crosses Mexico, US and Canada. About 32 million US people live in the totality path and the weather is a challenge.

Both Mexico as Texas are still below 50% cloud coverage with the Mexican coast about 35%.

For more information about the weather statistics around April 1 for the totality path : see this link.

See also this website of Xavier Jubier for timings and locations of the solar eclipse.

My astronomical Highlights 2022

An interesting astronomical year "2022" with some amazing "wow" moments and again great learnings. I had to limit the list but these are my astronomical highlights:

#1 Visiting European Gravitational Observatory (Virgo) at Cascina (Italy); thx to my family

#2 A real interessing session and meeting Heino Falcke together with my collegue Walter 

#3 My best picture of Mars using IR/UV blocker 

#4 Solar Image with a detailed prominance

#5 Jupiter with Moon Io

Worth mentioning:

#6 Solar Image with Ellerman Bombs

#7 My first astroweekend @Berzieux (France) a making friends with Adriano

#8 Solar Image with full disk of the H-Alpha Sun 

#9 Meridian Line @Bologna (Italy) thx to collegue Patrick W

#10 Saturn at opposition

Moon Jupiter Saturn Mars 2022 Compilation

 

A 2022 compilation of my pictures of our solar system with our Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Celebrating 10 years blogging - Pascal Hilkens Astro Page

Today, exactly 10 years ago on December 23, 2012, I started with blogging and promoting my hobby via a personal blog. During these 10 years, I included 5 pages on my blog (Astro Page, Usefull links, Who Am I, Solargraphy and Helios), posted more then 1800 items and reached almost 130.000 people.

Start Winter

The Astronomical winter will start today, December 21, 22h48 local time (UT21h48).

Mars Color - IR 742nm comparison

 

Mars Comparison between:

Left -Color Image ASI224MC with IR/UV blocker filter and

Right - Image ASI224MC with IR 742 bandpass filter 

Setting: TAL200K f/8.5, ASI224MC, Barlox2 and ADC

Software: SharpCap4, AstroSurface

Sun December 16 reworked using AstroSurface

 

My image of the Sun in H-apha from December 16, 2022 is reworked using AstroSurface. The software is able to stack my SER movie and to edit the result using deconvolution, sharpening, ... Normally I stack my pictures using AS3! and editting with IMPPG and CS4. The result is very promissing.
The picture shows an active Sun with different prominences.

Setting: SolarMaxIII 70/400 f/5.7 DS, ASI290MM
Software: SharpCap4, AstroSurface