Saturday, April 4, 2020

Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas Animated Gif

On March 31, 202, the comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas was observed with TAL200K f/8.5. Pictures were taken with ZWO224MC. An animated gif was made of two pictures with timediffence of only 4min. This shows the speed of the comet across the sky.
Pictures are tiff files and slightly edited using CS4.



The animation is made using CS4 using "Window Animation" and save as Gif file and no specifics.

Venus in the Pleiades


On April 3, Venus showed up in the open starcluster "Pleiades".  This event was broadcast live with Astronomy Club "Helios" using Skype.
During the session different pictures were taken. Below picturre with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6.



100 NASA Solar Science Video's

NASA made an huge playlist of Solar Science available consisting of more then 100 video's. Via the Youtube channel you can learn all kind of facts and sciences of the Sun - see this link.


Thursday, April 2, 2020

Moon with ZWO224MC


Comet C/2019 Y4 Atlas with ZWO224MC


Two nights ago I was not able to find the comet using TAL200K with ZWO224MC. So I changed my strategy and used stellarium planetarium software. After star allignment of the mount a connection was made with Stellarium. The comet was uploaded in Stellarium and the mount was guided towards to comet. Next I used my 34mm ocular to see if the comet showed up. The very faint comet did show up and was set central in the ocular. The eyepiece was changed by the ZWO224MC camera and gain and exposure tme was increased untill the comet showed up.
As a result different pictures were made with different setting. I was not blown away with the result but still I'm proud of the results. 

Venus and Pleiades

Venus and Pleiades on April 1,  2020.  Setting with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6 ISO800, 45s exposure.


Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Venus and Pleiades

Still two days to go before we can observe Venus within the Pleiades. But today I was able to get Venus and the Pleiades in one frame. Picture taken with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6. Setting ISO 1600 and 30s exposure time. Limited editing using CS4.