after a sunny day, we also got a clear night with low temperatures around freezing. Transparency was initially reasonable with SQM in zenith of 18.7 to go to 19.2 later in the evening/night and drop … Read more
The paper made by Jonathan Labadie-Bartz was today published: “The birth of Be star disks I. from localized ejection to circularization”; abstract: Classical Be stars are well known to eject mass to build up a … Read more
during an short period of clear sky, i could obtain spectra of 2 Be-stars: gam Cas (10 x 60 sec exposure and PZ Gem (8 x 1200 sec exposure )
After a beautiful sunny day, it was also a clear night, though with a bit less transparency. I was able to observe several comets until high clouds are drift in. Still a number of comets … Read more
late in the evening it became a very clear sky, SQM in zenith was 19.45, which is very good in my area about 10 km from Antwerp. I was able to record 1 spectra of … Read more
After high clouds are gone, i started with observations of some comets: comets that could be observed are: 29P, C/2023 Q1, and C/2024 A1. Also some spectra of Be-stars in high resolution could be obtained. … Read more
the weather reports did not bode well, it was still clear in the early evening with light veil clouds and disturbing moon. I was able to observe 3 comets: C/2022 E2, C/2023 Q1 and C/2024 … Read more
the sky is not so transparent because of high veil clouds. I made no comet observations, but was able to obtain some spectra of Be stars until the sky closed completely due to drifting clouds. … Read more
Finally another clear but cold night. Following comets were observed with my comet setup. 29P , 195P, 472P, C/2022 E2, C/2022 N2, C/2022 QE78, C/2024 M1, P/2015 CD60 and an object listed on the Minor-Planet … Read more
It was cloudy and gray all day and towards evening there were some clearings however with high clouds that brought down the transparency. Still i was able to observe some comets, albeit in very poor … Read more