Starship Asterisk*

An image of sunspot group 2403 on August 23rd, 2015. The image was acquired using a homemade 200mm F/5 Newtonian and ASI 120MM-S camera, of course with a solar filter attached at the front. From around 50000 frames, only 700 were selected for this images, which was artificially colored. The group wa...

After a short look at the departing sunspot group AR 1944, I started to look for Venus through my C11 telescope. After about 5 minutes, the very thin but very large crescent suddenly appeared into the field of view. It was surreal to watch the boiling atmospheric arc of the planet just above the Sun...

At the following link I have posted a few images of the superb Moon-Venus conjunction which took place yesterday. The images were acquired both in daytime and at sunset. The daytime image shows the true conjunction with the two celestial objects at their minimal distance in right ascension. The suns...