360° Halo Around the Moon

Very early this morning, the moon high in the sky with a 360° Halo. Without thinking I took my camera and made some pictures. The auto function of the camera was choosen making sure no time was lost. Unfortunately this resulted in an ISO of 12800.. a little too high. But still a great picture.

Lecture : Black Holes explained

Werner Poets will give a lecture with as topic Black Holes. What are Black Holes and what is waving in gravitational waves?  In order to understand this, Werner Poets will be using Einstein"s special theory of relativity.  The lecture is foreseen on January 31, 2020 in Grimbergen (MIRA).

Mercury Transit in Heelal

My summary of the trip with Walter to Germany, observing the Mercury transit of November11th, 2019 is published. The publishment is made in the magazine "Heelal" of January 2020.

Visiting De Slegte in Ghent

As a result of visiting the second hand bookshop "De Slegte" in Ghent, I bought two books : The Sun - a biography and Gravitational waves. Perfect reading material when clouds cover the sky :)

Happy Astronomical New Year 2020

Happy New Year with a lot of astronomical highlights and don't miss the occultation of Venus by the Moon in June and Venus between the Pleiades beginning of April.

Horsehead Nebula IC434

The famous Horsehead Nebula IC434 located in constellation Orion and about 1375 ly from Earth.
Setting : Nikon D7500 on TAL200K f/8.5, ISO3200 with darks and total exposure of 42 minutes, each picture 30s/ Raw data converted to DNG format and stacking using DeepSkyStacker with final editing using CS4.

The Orion Nebula M42

The Orion Nebula or Messier M42. Setting : Nikon D7500 on TAL200K f/8.5 ISO3200 and total exposure of 16minutes, each picture 30s. Darks are included. Raw pictures converted to DNG and stacked using DeepSkyStacker with final editing using CS4.