Extreme Neumondsichel Mai 2016
Neumondsichel Mai 2016 Wegen des schönen Wetters war es am Samstag Abend möglich noch schnell die schmale Mondsichel (im Fernrohr) zu erhaschen. Nach dem Neumond vom 06.Mai 2016 um 21:30 war für den 7.Mai Abends mit dem Erscheinen der Mondsichel zu rechnen. Die Bedingungen waren aber nicht besonders gut. Die Deklination des Mondes war relativ...
Remote Observatory from a warm room
I am in the early trial stage of a small obsy, a Remote Observatory over USB on top of an nearby garage. I have a mount on an existing platform with power, which I want to control from my office room about 15m from the my little town house – using a powered hub and...
Astrophotography With a Nexus 5 Cell Phone
Nowadays many love their cell phone with its built-in camera feature.So my local observatory wants not only offer visitors to view through our telescope, but give assistance to mobile astronomy? What do they do? I wanted to check out Astrophotography With a Nexus 5 Cell Phone. To make a long story short, since there is...
Suburbian Messier hunting with an Atik Infinity ccd in a white zone
Some more suburbian Messier hunting with an Atik Infinity ccd astronomy camera on a 80/600 TMB Triplet Fluorite Apo. I have fought a bit with my secondary mount – an old HEQ5 – which is always ready in my office, and the suburban light pollution. The drift within an hour ist noticeable, the live stacking...
Komet C/2013 US10 (Catalina)
Seit November 2015 wurde der Komet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) wieder diskutiert. In den nächsten zwei Monate entfernt sich der Komet sich zwar weiter von der Sonne, kommt aber der Erde näher, bis er am 17. Januar in 0,73 Astronomischen Einheiten vorbei zieht. Die Helligkeit blieb bis in den Januar hinein praktisch konstant und grenzwertig für...
First light of the Atik Infinity: M42 in a white zone with 80/600 TMB Apo
I recently bought an Atik Infinity for video astronomy, boasting both the speed and sensitivity required for this new technique. Atik infinity is a fine camera with a 2/3 ” chip and the infinity software is a real paradigm shift. First light last night with an 80/600 TMB Apo: M42 in a white zone, picture...
ISS before moon
Ich habs verpasst! Ich hatte alles aufgebaut, sogar noch etwas Zeit. Die Software hatte im Livebild immer mal wieder kleine Aussetzer, aber in den entscheidenden Sekunden war alles gut. Ich habe auf eine externe Funkuhr gestarrt (die sich wenige Stunden vorher ganz neu synchronisieren musste), um sehr genau den richtigen Zeitpunkt zu erwischen. Ich wollte...
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse 2015 in Bavaria: Full 'Blood Moon' Coverage
The supermoon total lunar eclipse, which occurred on Sept. 27, featured a full moon that looks significantly larger and brighter than usual. It will be the first supermoon eclipse since 1982, and the last until 2033. The moon passed through Earth’s shadow on Sunday, Sept. 27, in a dazzling total lunar eclipse during a perigee...
Perseiden-Beobachtung 2015 am Sudelfeld
327 Schnuppen in der Nacht Mittwoch/Donnerstag, 12./13. August 2015: Diesmal lag das Maximum der Perseiden einerseits sehr günstig – kurz vor Neumond.Zum traditionellen VSW-Stelldichein am Sudelfeld wured diesmal nicht auf der Walleralm, sondern auf einem tiefer gelegenen, aber nicht minder “klassischen” Platz geladen. Einige Stimmungbilder vom Mittwoch auf Donnerstag am Sudelfeld Sternschnuppen schauen auf der...
June 30 and July 1 – close Venus-Jupiter conjunction
For the last few weeks, countless numbers of the world’s 7 billion people watched the western evening sky as the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, edged closer and closer to the Venus-Jupiter conjunction. Last night, June 30th, the Venus-Jupiter conjunction reached its least separation: 0.3° apart (at the time of twilight for the Americas)....
M44 Benchmark MTO (Russentonne), MC Rubinar against a 80mm triplet APO
I experiment a bit with an Rubinar and a MTO Russentonne 500mm lens, which I recently acquired second-hand. Here a snapshot fully manual settings with the RT 50 f/8 (and lots of light in Southern France). The Beehive Cluster, also known as M44, NGC 2632, or Cr 189, is an open cluster in the...
Nova Sagittarii 2015 moving up a notch again
This “new” star is definitely worth to log. It was the brightest nova in Sagittarius (German Schütze) more than 100 years, and the brightest anywhere in the sky since Nova Centauri 2013. Classical novae are not all alike. However, their underlying mechanism is the same: a white-dwarf star collects gas, mostly hydrogen, from a...