After a very beautiful sunny day, the trend continued for a clear night. I therefore observed both comets and could obtain spectra. Unfortunately around 1 am – local time – during the night, I had … Read more
With a remote 0.61-m f/6.5 telescope from Telescope.Live, comet 57P was observed. An outburst could be observed (sudden brightening of the comet).
according to the weather forecast there would be a clear night, unfortunately clouds are coming in very regularly here. I also have to deal with reciprocal problems of momentary loss of USB connection to CCD/and … Read more
several comets could be observed until clouds where coming in: 29P, 193P, 408P, C/2017 K2, C/2019 U5, C/2020 K1, C/2020 K6, C/2020 PV6, C/2021 D2, C/2021 E3. Spectra could be obtained of folowwing stars: HD … Read more
During this clear evening with reasonable transparency, I was able to observe a few comets with the Orion Optics 0.4-m f/3.8 telescope: 29P, 107P, 186P, 431P, C/2017 K2, C/2019 U5, C/2020 PV6, C/2021 E3 and … Read more
I noticed that yesterday I observed my 500th comet since I started observing comets in 2005, a nice milestone, and I also passed the 1000 spectroscopic observations of Be stars, also a nice milestone
After the clouds cleared I was able to observe some comets until the clouds reappeared. comets observed were: 132P, C/2017 K2, C/2019 T3, C/2017 B3, C/2020 S3, C/2021 R2 and an object C60DRY2 mentioned on … Read more
the weather was not so good because of clouds passing by. also i had to face some technical problems during the observations. I was able to observe a few comets though: 29P (in outburst), 193P, … Read more
during this clear evening i observed some comets, despite the moonphase of 0.84: 104P, 408 P, C/2020 K6, C/2021 E3, P/2008 QP20, P/2015 Q1 (not found), P/2019 LD2. Also simultanously i observed some stars to … Read more
a clear evening and i started with capture some comets: 104P, C/2017 K2, C/2019 U5, C/2020 K1, C/2020 PV6, P/2008 QP20 (not found). spectra could be obtained from following stars: V1294 Aql, HD 179343, 10 … Read more