Thursday, December 16, 2021

Jupiter Saturn Venus in the evening sky


This evening I tried to find comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) low above the south-western horizon. Unfortunately without succes and probably due to some low clouds. Instead I took some pictures of the Jupiter-Saturn-Venus allignment.

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Upcoming XMAS ARISS SSTV Event

An ARISS Slow Scan TV (SSTV) event is scheduled from the International Space Station (ISS) for late December. This XMAS ARISS SSTV event is planned between december 26 and december 31.



Tuesday, December 14, 2021

ISS Moon Transit

On December 8, 2021, UT17h06, the International Space Station - ISS - was flying in front of the Moon. This was easy observed with the naked eye. I made different pictures but was unable to get a sharp picture of the station. The pictures shows the ISS twice.. as the picture was stacked. 



Friday, December 10, 2021

Awards ARISS SSTV MAI75 Experiment December 1



I received my Awards from SSTV December MAI75 experiment with ISS Expedition 66 (december 1, 2021).



Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) using APP 1.083 Beta2



On the morning of December 8th, 2021 I was able to take some pictures of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) which is located in constellation serpens. 

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6; 30x30s ISO1600, darks, bias, flats and darkflats. Stacking with APP 1.083 Beta1 (comet option) and final editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.



Thursday, December 9, 2021

Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard)


Observation of Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) which is moving "fast" between the stars and currently located in constellation serpens. The comet is not yet visible with the naked eye.

Setting : Nikon D7500 and TLAPO80/480 f/6; 30x30s ISO1600, darks, bias, flats and darkflats. Stacking with APP (comet option) and final editing using CS4 and DeNoise AI.


Wednesday, December 1, 2021

MAI 75 SSTV Expedition 66 December 1 Event - Results

Today the ISS was submitting images to Earth as part of the MAI75 SSTV Expedition 66 event. I used the websdr from Nürnberg (http://nbgsdr.ddns.net/) and MMSSTV software. The results were rather poor. I was able to receive 5 pictures but not one was really good.