Nightscape Moon Venus Mercury Alignment

This evening, just after sunset, the Moon, Venus and Mercury arise low above the Western horizon. Venus still bright but Mercury (north west of Venus) is getting fainter day by day now. Picture taken using Nikon D7500 with limited editing using CS4.

Failed Solargraph Analemma

Bad news! My Solargraph set up for capturing the annual Analemma onfurtunately failed. Last week, due to snow, my homemade shield came loose from the timemechanism. As a result, the capturing of the sun at the same moment was stopped and could not be calibrated any more.

What are the learnings :

1) my home made system seems to work, capturing the beginning of the analemma
2) positioning to the south could be better
3) somehow a piece of the tape came loose on came on the photopaper (white rectavle)
4) set up withstand the storm in January and heavy rainfall without getting wet
5) time module seems to be accurate enough the keep tracking the sun

Based on this learning, I need to figure out how the secure better the timemechanism with the shield. Even the fact I'm dissapointed, I will retry but with a slightly different set up.

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My Picture on the Weather Forecast

This morning I took a landscape picture which was send to #vrtweer. At noon time my picture was part of the Weather Forecast on TV by Frank Deboosere :)

 

Nightscape with Venus & Mercury Alignment

This evening, both planets Venus and Mercury were visible low above the Western horizon. Around 19h15m local time clouds disappeard and Mercury showed up north of bright Venus.

Nightscape Startrail

Startrail above Maagdentoren in Zichem. In total 143 pictures taken, each 25s. and stacked using Startrails v2.3. Limited editing using CS4.

Nightscape Moon Jupiter

Beautiful view of the Moon and Jupiter (west of the Moon) this morning.