Pascal Hilkens Astro Page

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Video : Aurora - Northern Light

I made a video of about 100 images taken on May 10th during the Aurora show above Belgium. Enjoy watching the video.

Click on the picture to watch the video

Saturday, May 18, 2024

More picture of the Northern Light of May 10

Some more pictures taken of the aurora of 10 May above Averbode (Belgium). All pictures taken with Nikon D7500, 15mm f/4, ISO1600 and 5s exposure time.

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Sunspot AR3664 responsable for Aurora above Belgium

On May 10, I made some images of sunspot AR3664. This huge sunspot (2400MH) was very active with M and X flares. The resulting CME's are responsible for a fantastic live aurora show above Belgium and many other countries.

Setting:

SolarMax III 70/400 f/5.7 with ASI290MM

Reducer x0.5

Lights : Exposure time 0.675ms, 82 fps, 3000 frames

Use of flats.

Software : SharpCap 4.1, AstroSurface, CS4

Aurora or Northern Light

Some more pictures of Aurora or Northern Light above Belgium.

Aurora or Northern Light visible from Averbode (Belgium)

Sunspot AR3664 is very active and is creating ongoing CME 's. This evening Kp went from 7 to 8 and even 8.75. So good chance for Northern Light... and yes it was there. At certain moments the phenomen was even visible with the naked eye... how cool.

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Big Sunspot AR3664 AR3668

Sunspot AR366/3668 is about 1200MH big and was also responsable for a flare X2.1 this morning. When lookng at the sunspot you will see a lot of details: umbra, penumbra, fibrils, umbraldots, lightbridges and granulation. It's one of my few pictures with such clear granulation.

Setting:

TAL200K f/8.5 with ASI290MM

Barlow x2

Filter: Solarfilter ND3.8, OIII filter and IR/UV cut filter

Exposuretime 1ms, 3000 frames, 81fps

Software: Sharpcap 4, AstroSurface, CS4