Wow, I never dared hope for this one. Every year, Royal Museums Greenwich holds the ‘astronomer photographer of the year’ contest in which the best astro photos of that year are chosen by a jury of astrophotographers, artists, museum curators and publishers of astronomical magazines. Every year there are about 4500 entries of which about …
Comet 2014/Q2 Lovejoy taken from Siding Springs, Australia using the Tzec Maun Telescope. I only could use 6 x 1 minute of data (I had a bit more, but somehow there were many high clouds I think introducing some heavy gradients). It’s one of my first comet images like this, but there is still a …
Last year (2013) I visited with my wife and children for the first time a holiday house in Daun, Germany. There I got in touch with some of the members of the Astronomische Vereinigung Vulkaneifel (AVV). This group has taken up the responsibility to keep the Hoher List observatory in Schalkenmehren (near Daun) partly working …
Last night I went to Kinderdijk to photograph comet Panstarrs. The result can be seen here: Here is an animation showing the comet setting about an hour after sunset: Here is an image showing the comet’s skytrace:
Tonight I took the opportunity to photograph comet Panstarrs that is racing through our skies now. Unfortunately the focus was not perfect, but it is clearly visible on this image: And this is one day later:
G. J. Garradd (Siding Spring Observatory, Australia) discovered this comet on four images obtained between 2009 August 13.77 and August 13.81. He was using the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera. The magnitude was given as 17.5-17.7 and the coma was described as circular and 15″ across. The first confirmation was obtained by …
G. J. Garradd (Siding Spring Observatory, Australia) discovered this comet on four images obtained between 2009 August 13.77 and August 13.81. He was using the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera. The magnitude was given as 17.5-17.7 and the coma was described as circular and 15″ across. The first confirmation was obtained by …
G. J. Garradd (Siding Spring Observatory, Australia) discovered this comet on four images obtained between 2009 August 13.77 and August 13.81. He was using the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope and a CCD camera. The magnitude was given as 17.5-17.7 and the coma was described as circular and 15″ across. The first confirmation was obtained by …