Moon craters Copernicus and Eratosthenes, Plato with Montes Alpes and Rima Hadley, a sinuous rille located west of the Apollo 15 landing site at 5600 mm focal length.
Sun in white light, 25 February 2024
Giant sunspot group AR3590 is more than ten times wider than Earth and can be safely viewed through ordinary eclipse glasses. Report coming soon.
Moon craters Clavius and Moretus in high resolution, 15 February 2024
Moon craters in Clavius and Moretus at 5600 mm focal length. Seeing was unfortunalety bad, with some medium-quality moments.
Partial moon eclipse, 28 October 2023
The last moon eclipse until 2028, unfortunately only a partial moon eclipse
Moon and distant objects, 28 May 2023
Observing moon, deep sky objects of the spring night sky and the distant quasar 3C273 together with Gerald and Gisela.
Double rainbow at dawn, 6 May 2023
After a brief downpour, a beautiful double rainbow appeared.
Spring galaxies observing, 22 April 2023
Spring galaxies were observed with the Celestron 9 in the observatory in Wulkaprodersdorf.
Alpine joy: Jupiter, Venus and Orion, 16 February 2023
As part of a ski tour in Mönichkirchen, I was able to spot Venus and Jupiter in the west at dusk. The alpine starry sky with Orion at night is phenomenal.
Comet observing / C/2022 E3 (ZTF), 29 January 2023
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is a long-period comet from the Oort cloud that was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) on 2 March 2022. In the eventing of January 29, 2023, the comet was easilyContinue reading