The evening of New Year's Day managed to pleasantly surprise with its pleasant weather. Come out and describe! The moon shone high up, so I aimed for it. Seeing was incredibly calm: Every few seconds, a "wave" wandered over the image area for a second, otherwise the image was completely accurate and stable. As time went by, the Moon was shrouded in a thin upper cloud, which was visible as a deterioration of the resolution and haziness in the image. I let the camera sing for approx. 1300-1400 pictures. I added 2x Barlow and the image quality was still amazingly good. First time as good as w...

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After a long time describing the sun, and something to see could be seen from behind the clouds! Seeing was quite calm, but a bit hectic.

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I described the Moon for a long time in the evening. Sometimes I got stuck elsewhere, and time passed more than expected. A surprisingly large amount of dry ones accumulated quickly, so there was enough material. I also used the images for a small-scale comparison of different stacking programs, and I found a new competent acquaintance: Planetary System Stacker. The good quality material and the big stacks gave me some opportunities to play in the post-editing, so I ended up making a slightly more colorful version.

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I got to open the season with a "new" camera. The old Canon 77D got a new shutter during the summer and at the same time I removed the daylight filter that limited the view of the hydrogen alpha line from the front of the camera. I chose an easy-to-photograph classic as the first object: the North America nebula (NGC-7000). The night did not go completely smoothly. In the end, however, usable frames accumulated for a good hour. I also had to learn new tricks in processing, and a few new versions of the image accumulated before I was (fairly) satisfied with the image myself. It has to start som...

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After clearing the weather, I went to the shore of a familiar lake to follow and describe the encounter of the Moon, Mercury, and the Sifters. Shortly after sunset, the crescent moon shone bright in the sky. Just over half an hour after sunset, Mercury also stood out with binoculars, and soon with its eyes. At no point did I see the screen with the naked eye or my 8 * 56 binoculars, but I also grabbed the pictures with the brightest 8 stars.

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A couple of days later, the outlook was quite different. The same comma groups were visible, but the facets had already changed strikingly.

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For a long time, the sun has to be photographed too! A short session at noon: Hundreds of images, 73 of which were selected for stacking and processing.

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The optical alignment and collimation of my new telescope (SkyWatcher MN190) is finally starting to find its rightful place. On Tuesday, the weather was cloudless for a long time, so it was time to try filming. The moon soared in the southern sky. As soon as I got to the screen of the Moon's camera, the weather soon became apparent: Today there was a good seeing, mostly gentle ripples and sometimes a little rumbling for a while. I stabbed the camera and sometimes did something else. A couple of times I went to check the focus, but that’s where it was and stayed. Eventually, "hundreds" of i...

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The changing winters of early winter have to be taken advantage of somehow, so I decided to “capture” the outer planets on the cell. Today it was Neptune's turn. By comparing the search map and test exposures of the Stellarium, I first searched for the western "head" of the Pisces (the ring formed by the stars), from which I headed down until Neptune was in the center of the image area. I took some sort of picture with both 70mm and 200mm focal lengths. The clouds interrupted the recording, so we had to return soon inside to edit the images. The first 2 images were taken at 70 mm, and the ...

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The first target of the outer planet hunt was Uranus. The moon only shone about 30 degrees away, but I decided to give it a try because the sky looked clear at the start. Uranus was found after a reasonable search for the cell, aided by the Stellarium. The clouds began to wander in the sky, but I continued to shoot until the sky completely disappeared. The processing had to throw away quite a lot of images and the gradients caused by the Moon were also a disadvantage.

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The first longer observation and imaging session with a new telescope. From the edges of the original image, it can be seen that the alignments of the new pipe still have to be adjusted, so I cropped the image by about 50%. But to the destination: During the week, I got the chance to explore the ancient open constellation NGC188 through an article on Sky & Telescope. It is located near the celestial pole, about 4 degrees from Polaris (on the side of Cepheus). It is estimated to be 6.8 billion years old, so it is clearly older than the Solar System. However, it has remained piled up and avoided...

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The Perseus binary star NGC869 & NGC884 / Caldwell 14 is always a nice destination to return to. Even asterisks are enough for the entire field of view so that you can evaluate the tube settings. So again this time, and there's still plenty to adjust.

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A new telescope (MN190) in the yard to cool down and get some time to close the camera. The moon roared nicely in the east, so there was no need to actually look for the first object. Seeing was calmly undulating and surprisingly good. But when we’re pretty close to the full moon, it was editing a little painful wrestling with the contrast.

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In the sun has begun to happen: Inspired by the comma group AR2818 / AR2820 / AR2821, the vermes in the yard and describe. Seeing was surprisingly good for the afternoon. This time, however, the stacking did not produce qualitative improvements, so the satisfaction is with the individual images. Visually, more was visible, e.g. the flashes in the second image clearly stood out from the camera screen while the focus was being honed.

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Nice weather and seeing pretty good. The sun has long been photographable: the sunspots 2816, 2817, and 2818 of the new polka dot period were nicely displayed.

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The weather of the evening promised good seeing. The "spring maintenance" of the optics stretched a little too late, and the cooling was interrupted when I already started the descriptions. Seeing was really good, and visually Barlowkin gave more details. It would have been necessary to have a slightly better cooled tube for the description.

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Email news reported that the new Nova had flared in Cassiopeia, so it was a must to try to describe it once it was clear. https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/observing-news/bright-nova-erupts-in-cassiopeia/ I was shooting in a fairly wide field because I wasn’t quite sure of the location, but based on the appropriate orienteering stars, the nova did capture the images!

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Mars was hiding in the constellation Taurus on the evening of March 16, 2021, between the Hyads and the Sifters. Due to the size of the field of view, the lens this time is "Nifty-fifty" Canon 50 mm F / 1.8 STM, which is quite a suitable glass for the starry sky F74 dimmed.

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I set out to hunt asteroid Vesta on a clear evening from the Lion's tail. I photographed 60 30 s exposures with the idea of just making it clearly visible. And that’s what you saw when you got on the plane to compare to the roofs of the Stellarium. As a small positive surprise, more came into the picture! The Lion's galaxy triad was also clearly visible. Less frequently, it has itself become a captured image, with astronomical objects from three "layers" of a completely different scale: the Solar System, the Milky Way, and other galaxies.

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Mars is closest to Seoul on Wed-Thu night, but there were no filming at that time. There were suns on Friday night, and I decided to take a little longer exposures. This time, the mists of the screens also grabbed weakly. The handsome "propeller" of Mars is made by the dimmer plates of my lens.

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