By now it’s already 5 weeks ago that the Total Solar Eclipse took place in the US which millions of people looked forward to for a long time. Now I’m finally finished with processing most of the data of the eclipse and I want to share the results here. About 1,5 years ago we decided …
168P/Hergenrother is a periodic comet in the solar system. The comet originally named P/1998 W2 returned in 2005 and got the temporary name P/2005 N2. The comet had its perihelion on 1 October 2012, and was expected to reach about apparent magnitude 15.2. It showed that it was much brighter, reaching a magnitude between 9 …
Planetoid 68 Leto passed between 14th and 17th of March 2012 through the Pleiades star cluster. This planetoid has a size of about 122 km and can be found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. After making some images of the Pleiades I saw that there was a planetoid moving through the field of …