Astronomical Highlights 2019

I want to summarize some of my astronomical highlights from 2019 :

- Impressive Noctilucent clouds up to zenith
- Lunar Eclipse
- Lecture of Sir Roger Penrose
- Milkyway widefield in Thailand
- Comet Iwamoto with open star cluster M36 and M38
- Transit of Mercury in Dresden (Germany) with SolarMaxIII (H-Alpha)
- Deepskyobjects : Andromeda Galaxy M31, Dumbbell Nebula M27, Omega Nebula M17
- Very bright halo's around the Sun at home, Portugal and Thailand
- Stephan's Quintet
- Solargraph with 50cl can

Nocitlucent clouds across the north-western horizon and reaching towards zenith

Full coverage of Lunar eclipse

Lecture by the famous Sir Roger Penrose

The bright Milky Way in Thailand with Jupiter, Saturn and of course constellation Scorpius

Comet Iwamoto together with open star cluster M36 and M38

Mercury transit in Dresden (Germany) in H-Alpha with SolarMaxIII

Deepskyobjects : Omega Nebula M17, Dumbbell Nebula M27 and Andromeda Galaxy M31

This year I could take some picture of very bright Halo's, one at home, Portugal (Viego) and Thailand (Kanchanaburi)

Distant Deepsky object Stephan's quintet : more then 200million lightyears from earth

Solargraph with 50cl can

Start of Winter

Start of Winter at 5h19, december 22nd.

Solargraphy results

Solargraph with 72cl can

After 6 months exposure I opened this morning my two pinhole cans.  One 50cl can, the other 72cl. After drying and scanning of the paper, the pictures are inverted and edited using CS4.

Solargraph with 50cl can

Earthshine

Picture of waning crescent Moon (27% illuminated) and earthshine.

Mars with Meteor?

This morning, Mars low above the south eastern horizon. When opening my pictures, one shows a meteor or satellite flare. Not sure what it is but still an impressive picture.

Moon 27% Illuminated

Weather forecast changed overnight resulting in a clear sky this morning. The waning crescent moon was 27% illuminated. Picture taken with NikonD7500 on TLAPO80/480 f/6/ Raw picture converted to DNG and editing using CS4.

Moon 48%

This morning a waning crescent moon (48%). Central located : Crater Ptolemaeus, 153km in diameter