Horsehead Nebula Triology III: How it came to life.
🌐 View Original Live Data on Slooh 📋 Observation Report Horsehead Nebula Triology III: How it came to life. Above my first processed CAT1 Horsehead Nebula which I liked, so why not fancy both up in a 1×2 mosaic with Flame Nebula? Hmm, 5 arc seconds black (no overlap) , I tried a CAT III...
Horsehead Nebula Triology IÎ: Canary I 2×1 mosaic.
🌐 View Original Live Data on Slooh 📋 Observation Report Horsehead Nebula Triology IÎ: Canary I 2×1 mosaic. This 68.4 x 27.6 arcmin field CAT1 2×1 mosaic in Orion unveils emission, absorption, and reflection nebulae comprising a star forming area at ~400 pc distance including Horsehead (IC 434) and Flame Nebulae (NG 2024). I know...
Horsehead Nebula Triology I: Canary III 2×1 mosaic.
🌐 View Original Live Data on Slooh 📋 Observation Report Horsehead Nebula Triology I: Canary III 2×1 mosaic. This 1.46° × 1.78° field CAT3 2×1 mosaic in Orion unveils emission, absorption, and reflection nebulae comprising a star forming area at ~400 pc distance including Horsehead and Flame Nebulae. A CAT 1 Horsehead nebula image and...
Supernova SN 1054 Observation in the past – Kaifeng Observatory (Tianguan Guest Star)
🌐 View Original Live Data on Slooh 🌐 View post with focus on archaeo-astronomy and history 📋 Observation Report This is a virtual evolution observation report of supernova SN 1054, my SLOOH images and CAT4 spectra as well as using historical records of the supernova event and spectra of the recent supernova SN 2018zd. There’s...
RSPEC Processed interstellar 3I/ATLAS SLOOH CAT4 Spectrum 12/09
🌐 View Original Live Data on Slooh 📋 Observation Report At the time of the observation (post-perihelion), 3I/ATLAS was a vigorously active interstellar comet, displaying a composition strikingly similar to solar system comets. Spectrum is a textbook example of a comet in its active, dusty phase and validation of the two-phase model. It shows that...
The new Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) Introduction A new Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) has suddenly become visible to the unaided eye, overshooting its brightness predictions. It is the first one visible to the naked eye in this millennium and expected to remain so in July. NEOWISE was discovered in late March and brightened as it reached its closest...
Seven Sisters and Seven Duckling / Pleiades meet Venus 2020
Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for Pleiades after Greek mythology. Those seven sisters are companions of Artemis, the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. Although the planet Venus has a conjunction with the Pleiades star cluster every year, the best Venus-Pleiades conjunctions only come in early April...
C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) broken.
Comet Atlas had been forecast to become “really, really stunning” within weeks, as it got closer to Earth. Now, however, the object appears to have broken up and will not make for such a beautiful – let alone easy visible – sight. C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), or Comet ATLAS, is a comet with a near-parabolic orbit,...
Atik Horizon Camera (OSC) – First light
This is a first light report of a few nights out with my new Atik Horizon Camera (OSC) compared with an Atik 383L+ and Infinity. To sum it up, the camera performed well even under terrible light conditions. Most significant, the Atik Horizon allows Live Stacking with the Infinity Software, one method to do Electronically...
Hunting for Comet ‘C2018 Y1/Iwamoto’
There was a lucky break in the storm of about 45 minutes to see Comet ‘C2018 Y1/Iwamoto’ after midnight 19/02!11. Just enough time for a snapshot during a heavy winter storm nore ore less out of a roof skylight photgraphed in an area with heavy light polution. Conviniently the iceball just raced by my field...
Hunting for Comet 46P/Wirtanen
Hunting for Comet 46P/Wirtanen. No complaint against the restaurant which served me a hot soup during a warm-up break. It was minus 9 degree celsius plus significant wind chill. Nothing against the washed out church either, stingy enough to switch light off after 10pm. Moon oberstayed its welcome. Here two pictures of the Sudelfeld: ...