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...
Webcams auf den astronomischen Beobachtungsplätzen in unseren Breiten
Webcams im Nahbereich Nymphenburg München West Marienplatz München Mitte Passau Blick über die Dächer von Salzweg Grainet Arber Oberes Sudelfeld Webcams Bayern Allgäu foto-webcam.eu fuerstenfeld peissenberg Webcams auf den astronomischen Beobachtungsplätzen in unseren Breiten Webcam-Blick über die Dächer von München-Neuhausen Webcam-Blick im Hintergrund der Taubenberg und (bei klarem Wetter) das Mangfallgebirge Webcam-Blick zum Wendelstein (nur bei klarer...
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...
Arduino-based converter to connect Cartes du Ciel with a telescope over WLAN
Arduino-based Cartes du Ciel Skywatcher bridge I’m currently developing a prototype connecting a planetary software on a laptop or tablet like “Cartes du Ciel” or Stellarium to my Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 GT telescope mount. Physical the connection should be WLAN using an Arduino and an Ethernet shield. There are commercial WLAN products out there, but I...
Arduino Step by Step Notes
Seee code here https://github.com/futureshocked/arduino_sbs Abschnitt 1: Getting started with the Arduino 1 Introduction 01:54 2 The Arduino ecosystem 07:50 3 Lecture 2 quiz 6 Fragen 4 Tools and prototyping workflow 07:51 5 Lecture 3 quiz 5 Fragen 6 Let’s make a light blink! 11:35 7 Lecture 4 quiz 3 Fragen 8 Make the LED fade...
Partial Solar Eclipse 2015
Europe’s biggest solar eclipse since 1999 occurred this month – and 67 per cent of sunlight could be blocked out over Munich. A total eclipse of the sun will occur in Northern Norway and Faroe Islands with two minutes and two seconds of totality. Besides going to be the biggest event of its kind since...
M42 Quick Snapshot
Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) with 1,350 light years is the closest region of a massive star formation. M42 is undoubtedly one of the most popular deep sky targets. Whether you image through a telescope or a camera lens, it can even be captured even under city conditions by anyone who knows...
30th International Star Party Austria
It was worth the drive to one of the highest annual star parties in Europe on the weekend of September 25–28 at the grassy mountain meadow of Berg above the small town of Greifenburg in southern Austria. Looking at the weather report I arrived Friday afternoon. Known as the Internationales Teleskoptreffen, or ITT (International Telescope...
ToUcam SPC900NC
The Philips SPC900NC seems a good CCD for CS modification. Here the story I found it in the Net with pictures and comments. No assurance that this works. In order to send the correct signals to the camera, the capture software must be told to use the correct COM port (from the computer control panel...