Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Aditya L1: India's first Mission to the Sun arrived at L1
India's first Solar Mission Aditya-L1 succesfully entered into Lagrangian Point L1.At this point the solar explorer will orbit the sun about 177days.
The Aditya-L1 mission was launched in September and is carrying an array of instruments to measure and observe the sun's chromosphere and corona.
For more information see this link : https://www.isro.gov.in/Aditya_L1-MissionDetails.html
Monday, January 1, 2024
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Reworking Sol'Ex H-Alpha Images using IMPPG
I reworked my Sol'Ex images from Oct 1 & 14, 2023 using IMPPG 1.9.1 beta. CS4 was used to add false colours.
Friday, December 29, 2023
140.000 Visitors
Since the start of my blog on December 2012, I'm counting an amazing number of 140.000 visits to my blog. Thanks for visiting my blog and hopefully I have managed to convey my passion for astronomy, solargraphy and related sciences.
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Astronomical Highlights 2023
Again an interesting astronomical year "2023" with some amazing "wow" moments and again great learnings. I had to limit the list but these are my astronomical highlights:
#1 Comet C/2022 E3(ZTF) with 3 tails
#2 Saturn at opposition
#3 Sol'Ex images of the Sun in H-alpha and CaK
#4 Jupiter
#5 Circumscribed halo and parhelic circle
Worth mentioning:
#6 Sun in HeI (D3) spectrum
#7 Moon halo, Moondogs and paraselene circle
#8 Supernova SN2023ixf in M101
#9 M81
#10 Visit Radio Astronomy Center Humain
#11 Venus, Mercury and Pleiades
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