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Astronomy: website and activity updates

Total Solar Eclipse of July 2, 2019

Hello everybody! This is my first post to the new and revamped version of my website. Enjoy! The only total solar eclipse of 2019 took us to the southern hemisphere. Most of the totality path lay in the deep of the Pacific Ocean, offering no chances of viewing. Only at the far end of the path would Earth’s shadow make landfall, treating a small area of Chile and Argentina to a late afternoon eclipse. Therefore, this eclipse posed a twofold […]

Total Solar Eclipse of July 2, 2019

NGC 4216 And Friends

I haven’t posted any updates to my website in a while. Over the last few months I have been very busy with a host of different things: nevertheless, I have managed to do some imaging out in the field, and what I’m really short on is time to process raw data and publish results. So, here I am catching up (well, sort of ) with this image of the field around NGC 4216, an almost edge-on spiral galaxy. A member of […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: images / Astronomy: website and activity updates 14 June 2017 0

The Partial Solar Eclipse of March 20th, 2015

On March 20th, 2015 a solar eclipse took place, with totality visible only from the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. It would touch land only at two remote northerly locations: the Faroe Islands and the Svalbard Archipelago, stranded amid the Arctic Ocean at about 800 km north of NordKapp (Norway). From the rest of Europe, including Italy, this eclipse would just be visible as partial, with obscuration of the Sun increasing from SE to NW. Since for several […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: reports / Astronomy: website and activity updates 28 April 2015 0

One shot from Christoph Kaltseis’s presentation

CEDIC ’15

The fourth edition of CEDIC was held March 6th-8th, 2015. CEDIC is short for “Central European Deepsky Imaging Conference”: as its name suggests, it is a very specialized conference devoted to deepsky imaging and related topics: imaging and processing techniques, equipment, special use cases, etc. This conference saw the participation of a number of amateur astronomers from, some of whom are really top-notch, and some equipment dealers who also sponsored the event. he conference took place in Linz, Austria, in […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: reviews / Astronomy: website and activity updates 17 March 2015 0

Jupiter in February 2015

The best observing conditions for Jupiter in 2015 were expected to take place in February, as it would reach opposition on the 6th. Currently the gas giant is roaming constellation Cancer at a declination of about 17°, which produces rather favorable observing conditions for northern hemisphere mid-latitudes with a maximum altitude above the horizon of about 62°. Unfortunately it is heading towards the descending part of the ecliptic, so that the situation is bound to gradually worsen over the next […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: images / Astronomy: website and activity updates 2 March 2015 0

Comet Lovejoy Again

Heres another image of comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: Ive got more of them on my processing backlog but I picked this one because its the one with the longest sub-exposures. It was taken from my backyard, in a heavily light-polluted area close to Varese, Italy. Longer sub-exposures tend to show the comets tail better, but at the expense of a sky background thats way more difficult to tame because of light pollution. And indeed, it turned out to be a […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: images / Astronomy: website and activity updates 20 January 2015 0

Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy Approaching

Discovered in August 2014 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy (at its fifth comet discovery), this comet is putting on a nice show. It is now shining at magnitude 4, therefore within naked-eye visibility, but only under a dark sky, in the constellation Eridanus. During the month of January, the visibility conditions will improve further, as it is rapidly heading towards more northern declinations. (For more info, please check out e.g. Sky & Telescope’s website). I imaged comet Lovejoy on […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: images / Astronomy: website and activity updates 6 January 2015 0

First-light H-Alpha Images with my Modified PST

Imaging the Sun in a very narrow band centered on the h-alpha emission line (656.3 nm) yields some of the most stunning images of our star, which show a wealth of details and features on the solar surface which are not visible in white light. I have recently built a so-called “modified PST” solar telescope from a used Coronado PST. The instrument is still “work in progress” and I will most likely report on its construction in another article. I […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: images / Astronomy: website and activity updates 26 December 2014 0

Gems of Cassiopeia

As everybody knows, the fall Milky Way offers several among the most beautiful objects in the northern hemisphere sky. Most often, the attention will focus mainly on the most prominent objects, such as the Double Cluster in Perseus, the Heart Nebula, the California Nebula, etc. However, there are a host of less famous objects (open clusters, nebulae, etc.) which are real gems. The constellation of Cassiopea, despite its small size, is full of such gems. These objects, if taken individually, […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: images / Astronomy: website and activity updates 15 October 2014 0

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