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My saturday night astrophotography session (see last post) got some attention in local news. Two folks from Kleine Zeitung accomanied me and a friend to the observing location. They created a video report, showing us freezing the ***** off for a nice photo.
Kudos to the journalists, as they endured the -10° until 2:30am!
View video here…
Hint: Video is in german language
This weekend is the perfect viewing opportunity for Comet 46/P Wirtanen:
First, the comet is closest to eart by less than 0.08 astronomical units (distance from earth to the sun), which is approximately 30 times the distance to moon!
Second, the comet passes very close to the open cluster M45 – the Pleiades.
And third, it is still an early moon phase. This means that from midnight on, the night will be really dark!
I was eagerly waiting for this view. Though current weather conditions in central Europe did not promise anything suitable for observations until 2-3 days ago. Saturday night showed increasing patches of open skies…
Finally, Saturday in the late afternoon, the sky cleared up. So all was a go for observing!
At -11°C conditions were cold but good for astro photography. Recent precipitation left some humidity in the air, reducing air transparency a bit. What caused some trouble was, a frost cover building up on all the equipment (photos will follow)…
Here are the results of a loooong night up in the mountains:
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