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About this blog
Atmospheric optics
Birding
Books and magazines
Deepsky
Deepsky binocular
Deepsky log
- A night of open clusters and double stars
- Arcturus, the "golden" Bear Watcher
- Binocular delights
- Birthday of Sir William Herschel
- Celestial Christmas Trees
- Comet Swan and some deepsky tourism
- Deep sky nights......
- Deep sky observing report 20-02-2004
- Deep sky observing report 21-02-2004 : M 44 in Cancer
- Deepsky observing with an Owl.......
- Deepsky observing with different instruments!
- Deepsky with a 12 inch dob
- First light(s) for my 300mm Orion Optics UK Dobson
- M 103 in Cassiopeia
- M45 with 15x80 and Sky Window
- Make your own deep sky observing list online
- NGC 7510, a very distant open cluster in Cepheus
- Observing double stars
- Observing report NEAT Q4 and deepsky
- Observing report TAL 250K
- Observing the Andromeda Galaxy
- On the wing of the Swan: The Veil Nebula
- Red necked Emu: First light TAL 100 RS
- Sagittarius treasure trove
- Some great doubles revisited
- Starhop through Monoceros
- Starhopping Lyra
- Stock 1 and The Coathanger
- The Mini Coathanger
- The Red Necked Emu
- The Summer Triangle
- Two "stick men" and some other beautiful deepsky objects
Deepsky TOP 100
- Deepsky Top-100 (01 through 09) moved to deepsky section
- Deepsky Top-100 (10): M 81 and M 82
- Deepsky Top-100 (11): Y Canum Venaticorum or La Superba
- Deepsky Top-100 (12): M 13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
- Deepsky Top-100 (13): M 57, the Ring Nebula
- Deepsky Top-100 (14): NGC 457, The ET Cluster
- Deepsky Top-100 (15): Stargate, Jaws and M 104
- Deepsky Top-100 (16): Beautiful Albireo
- Deepsky Top-100 (17): M 36, the Butterlfy Cluster
Deepsky observing
- My 20 favorite double and multiple stars, part 1: early spring
- My 20 favorite double and multiple stars, part 2: late spring – early summer
- My 20 favorite double and multiple stars, part 3: summer
- My 20 favorite double and multiple stars, part 4: autumn
- My 20 favorite double and multiple stars, part 5: winter
- Observing hidden treasures.........
Equipment
- Argo Navis digital setting circles
- Baader AstroSolar PhotoFilter
- Baader Micro-Guide eyepiece
- Binocular astronomy using the Sky Window
- Camcorder astronomy
- Coolpix 4500 and solar images
- Coronado PST solar telescope: first images and reports
- Crayford focusser Orion Optics UK
- EQ6 on wheels!
- First light!
- My new 300mm dobson from Orion Optics UK
- My new toy
- Navigating the night sky
- New mount for TAL 200K: Synta EQ6
- Nikon Coolpix 4500
- Nikon Coolpix 4500 / Camera adaptors
- Observing chair for backyard astronomers: Catsperch Pro
- Pelicase for storing eyepieces and accessories
- PST first light
- PST lecture
- Star spectroscope arrived!
- TAL 250K 10-inch f 8.5 Klevtzov-Cassegrain
- Test of the Argo Navis
- Waterproof map case
- White light and H-alpha
- Zeiss Diascope and Coolpix 4500 for Birding and Lunar Imaging
General
Hot links!
- Astro images by Robert Gendler
- Astronomy software (more than 200 links)
- Exploring the Moon
- Global H-Alpha network
- Observing comets
- Observing the Sun in H-Alpha
- PSRD website
- Spaceweather.com
- The colour of double stars, a tricky business!
- The Pickering seeing scale
- Topsite on observing planetary nebulae (with downloadable data)
Moon
Lunar basics
Lunar geology
Lunar log
- 9-day-old Moon with Coolpix 4500
- Beautiful Clavius
- Copernicus and Montes Riphaeus
- Detailed lunar observing report with digital images
- Digital Moon images
- Earthshine and the 4-day-old Moon
- Ghost craters, floor fractured crater
- Lunar crater rays and Mare lavas
- Lunar observing report March 28th 2004
- Lunar observing report: 8-day-old moon
- Mare Fecunditatis area
- Observing log: 3-day-old Moon
- Observing Session January 2nd, 2004
- Observing the Moon with binoculars
- Oceanus Procellarum and the Aristarchus plateau
- Pythagoras
- Schickard and Wargentin
- Serpentine ridge, Posidonius, Atlas and Hercules
- The Moon 5 days old
- Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina
Lunar scraps
- 10-inch Skywatcher and the Moon
- A crescent Moon
- Another fine lunar image
- Clavius and copernicus region captured with coolpix 4500
- Dark ring around Tycho
- Digital images: 4-day-old Moon
- Flying over the Moon
- haunting Moon
- Images of a 16-day-old Moon
- July 31st: An orange Moon
- Lunar images 24-05-2004
- Magical Moon
- Mare Crisium, Mare Undanum and Mare Marginis
- Mare Nectaris and Rupes Altai
- Moon
- Schiller, Mare Humorum and Mare Frigoris
- The Moon in 3D
- Venus and the Moon, a nice pairing!
- Watery Moon
Planets
- Four Jupiter moons lined up
- Ganymede crossing Jupiter
- Observing Jupiter, Saturn and Mizar
- Sketching Mars
- Some digital images of Venus
- The Moon, Venus and Jupiter steeling the show this morning!
- The Moon, Venus and Mars
- Venus and Jupiter in the eastern sky, a spectecular sight!
- Venus transit: digital images!
Solar sytem scraps
Space Missions
Sun
Solar basics
Solar log
- Big sunspots visible!
- First H-Alpha pics!
- Observing the Sun in different wavelenghts
- Painting and the Sun
- Photographing the Sun with different filters
- Prominences and filaments
- Sunspot 656
- Sunspot group 667
- Sunspots 661, 662, 663, 664 and 665
- Sunspots 667, 669, 671 and 672
- Sunspots 756 and 757
- The Sun is "on fire"
- Three prominences
Solar scraps