A severe geomagnetic storm could be seen in the evening today! The first of six CMEs hurled toward Earth by giant sunspot AR3664 hit our planet’s magnetic field today.
Category: Observing report
Giant sun spot AR3664, 9 May 2024
Sunspot AR3664 has grown so large, sprawling almost 200,000 km from end to end. It is 15 times wider than Earth and rivals the great Carrington sunspot of 1859.
Moon Rima Hadley in high resolution, 19 March 2024
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.
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.
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