I love to observe the night sky with binoculars. I use a 7x50 Bresser and a 15x80 Vixen together with the Sky Window, a binocular mirror mount. If you want to know why I like binocular observing, especially in combination with a binocular mirror mount, just go to Sky Window and Binoculars page. It has has been completely rewritten. A lot of images and useful links have been added as well. Enjoy!

If you are interested in observing planetary nebula, be sure to visit the Planetary Nebulae Observer’s Home Page. You will find an introduction to planetary nebulae, over 200 images, more than 1200 observing reports, data on 1143 planetaries. There are also tips on observing planetaries, the use of nebula filters and some pages with Seasonal Best Planetaries, a page for each season with 25 planetaries for beginning but also for very experienced observers.

Last but not least there are some interesting files available for downloading (word or excel). One of them is an excel file containing data on 1143 planetaries, including the common name(s), catalogue number(s), RA, DEC, Size, magnitude, surface brightness, type, distance, magnitude of central star, constellation and more.

A very informative site! Be sure to check it out.

As an observer, I like to get as much information as I can get on the objects I am observing. The moon is one of my favorite observing targets. There ar many great sites on the internet about earth’s satellite. Exploring the Moon is one of them.

On this site you will find a timeline of lunar exploration with photos and capsule histories of scientists, discoveries, publications and space missions, an online photographic lunar atlas, a comprehensive catalog of lunar craters, complete texts of critical early papers and other interesting lunar information.

Highly recommended for everyone with in interest in the Moon!

Welcome to the Solar pages of my astronomy blog. To make things a little easier for you, I divided the lunar blog entries into four categories, Solar basics, Solar log and Solar scraps. In the Solar basics section, I will publish small articles about a few basic solar properties. In the Solar log I am filing my solar observing reports. Finally, in Solar scraps you will find various things that have to do with observing the Sun, short articles, images, books, links etc.

All sections are updated frequently, so hop in every now and again!

To go to one or more of the categories, please click on the link(s) below:

Solar basics

Solar log

Solar scraps

Last night we had our first observing session of the year. The seeing was very bad (very humid). Jupiter and Saturn where dissapointing, but luckily we had the Moon, one of my favorite observing targets! For a detailed observing report and some digital pics, just follow this link

Welcome to the lunar pages of my astronomy blog. To make things a little easier for you, I divided the lunar blog entries into four categories, Lunar basics, Lunar geology, Lunar log and Lunar scraps. In the Lunar basics section, I will publish small articles about a few basic lunar properties: the Moon's orbit, lunar phases, libration, locked rotation, apparent motion of the Moon across the sky, a table with basic lunar data etc. In the Lunar geology section, I will publish small articles about lunar geology. In the Lunar log I am filing my lunar observing reports. Finally, in Lunar scraps you will find various things that have to do with observing the Moon, short articles, images, books, links etc.

All sections are updated frequently, so hop in every now and again!


To go to one or more of the categories, please click on the link(s) below:

Lunar basics

Lunar geology

Lunar log

Lunar scraps

Welcome to the deepsky pages of my astronomy blog. To make things a little easier for you, I divided the deepsky blog entries into three categories, Deepsky binocular, Deepsky log and Deepsky TOP 100. In the “Deepsky binocular” section you will find interesting deepsky objects for binoculars. My deepsky observing reports can be found in the “Deepsky log”. The “Deepsky TOP 100 “is a series of 100 articles with my favorite deepsky objects.

All sections are updated frequently, so hop in every now and again!

To go to one or more of the categories, please click on the link(s) below:

Deepsky binocular

Deepsky log

Deepsky TOP 100

This observing report has been moved to the deepsky section on my website. Just follow this link to read the full story and see some pictures of the SkyWindow and a sketch of M 45.