The face of the sun has changed. After a long spotless drought, spots on the sun’s surface can be seen again. Sunspot group 2941 could be observed on the northwestern horizon and still shows aContinue reading
Crescent moon and Venus at dawn, 11 August 2021
A relaxed vacation day ended with the question of what on earth is Venus doing here below the moon. Venus as the evening star has completely passed me by. Some photos for image documentation wereContinue reading
Partial solar eclipse, 10 June 2021
On June 10, 2021, a partial solar eclipse took place over Austria at noon. The solar eclipse is unfortunately a small partial one, from Austria the area of the solar disk is only darkened byContinue reading
Cloud iridescence
Christian was able to observe an atmospheric phenomenon in the daytime sky, namely iridescent clouds. Cloud iridescence or irisation is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximityContinue reading
Observing globular clusters in Ophiuchus and Sagittarius
The Ophiuchus constellation lies in the southern sky, near the celestial equator. Its name means “the serpent bearer” in Greek. If you only observe in the first half of the night, Ophiuchus is not soContinue reading
Parts of the Veil nebula – NGC 6960 and NGC 6979 in hα
The Veil Nebula is a collection of emission and reflection nebulae located in the constellation Cygnus around 2400 light years away from Earth.
Crescent Moon, 20 August 2020
38 hours after new moon, I was able to spot the crescent moon at dawn on the western horizon. A clear night with a transparent sky revealed a good view of the summer Milky WayContinue reading
Comet observing / C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) with NLC, 10 July 2020
The last visual observation Comet C / 2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered on March 27, 2020 using the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) space telescope. On the morning of July 10, 2020, theContinue reading
Deep-Sky spring observing of galaxies and globulars, 22 April 2020
The last visual observation evening was a long time ago and the spring galaxies in Coma Berenices were grateful targets for the C11.