June 2011

Contents

  1. 1 Crescent Moon
  2. 2 Total Lunar Eclipse
  3. 3 Solar Structures and bad seeing
  4. 4 IC 1396 - Elephant's trunk


Crescent Moon

This image was taken to test my 6 inch Maksutov for planetary imaging, and this was first light for that scope. Like the result.



 Object Name:
 Moon
 Object Type:
  Moon
 Object Position:
 
 Location/Date/Time:
 St. Pölten, 5.6.2010, 21:30 MESZ (5.6.2010 19:30 UTC)
 Parameters:
 10 frames with Nikon D40x using the 6" Mak



Total Lunar Eclipse

On June 15 a very long total lunar eclipse took place, which was in parts also visible from Austria. Here are three snapshots I was able  to take with the 3.5 inch Maksutov (the 6 inch was used for visual observation by mself and our guests at the
NOe Sternwarte.)

  
 
 during totality at 22:41 CEST
  end of totality at 23:10 CEST
 23:15 CEST

    

 Object Name:
 Moon - Total lunar eclipse
 Object Type:
  Moon
 Object Position:
 
 Location/Date/Time:
 Michelbach, 15.6.2010
 Parameters:
  3.5 " f/12 Maksutov


Solar Structures and bad seeing

Several days after the lunar eclipse I tried to do some evening solar imaging. The seeing was very bad, therefore the image of the structures and the spot are very bad.



IC 1396 - Elephant's trunk

IC 1396 is not the catoalogue ID of the Elephant's Trunk Nebula. It actually the designation of a star cluster with nebulosity, where the elephant's trunk is only a part of this nebulosity. The image shows only the central part of this large nebulosity complex, which spans nearly three degrees in each direction [1]. Therefore the image below shows only the central part (about 1  x 0.7 degrees).





 Object Name:
 IC 1396
 Object Type:
  Star cluster with nebulosity
 Object Position:
 
 Location/Date/Time:
  St. Pölten, 29.6.2011 23:00 CEST (21:00 UTC)
 Parameters:
  9x300s L, 3x300 RGB (2x2)




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