The complete eclipse on the way to Stars and Space magazine was magnificently visible. The observation site outside Vicuña in the lap of the mountains was descriptive, and the arrangements worked perfectly. I made an observational drawing of the Sun before the start of the eclipse at about 3pm local time through a hydrogen-alpha tube to let us know what kind of prototypes would be expected. The biggest protu at 5 o'clock was big but dim - it looked very nice without filters during the perfect phase! The drawing made with the white light filter was made at about 3:40 p.m., when the eclipse ...

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For once, a complete lunar eclipse was seen without major cloud problems. During the perfect phase, the cloud curtain rose slightly to disturb, but otherwise the Moon remained in the clear sky. The perfect phase of the eclipse was quite dark. In its aftermath, the Moon was already low, and as the shadow receded, the bright part was much yellower than at the beginning of the eclipse. Instead of photographing, I made an observational drawing in three stages — with the full shadow covering about half of the Moon before the perfect phase, then at the time of the deepest eclipse itself, and finally...

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A leisurely warm and summery Saturday and a comfortable time to make an observational drawing of the Sun directly on black paper, skipping the usual pencil sketch.

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Mercury overflow detected through Coronado MaxScope 40 hydrogen-alpha tube. In the second image, a view through the white light filter and the Skymax 127 tube 2 hours 15 minutes later.

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The last pair out of the oven, that is, here is also a drawing of the Venus-Mars pair in addition to the previous Jupiter-Mars pair and the Venus-Jupiter pair. This time, I wanted to bring the sparkling brightness of Venus into the drawing and draw the planet as it is roughly visible in the visual observations.

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The clouds didn’t quite give up when the planet trio was at its tightest on Monday, but today it was clear and seeing was pretty good too. The frost was comfortable at -5.7 degrees Celsius. Mars, Venus, and Jupiter were all still barely visible in the field of view of the 15x50 binoculars; only Venus and Jupiter could fit in the telescope image, and I made a drawing of them. The overview is at 23x magnification; shorter focal length eyepieces have been used in the detail images.

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The foggy mornings finally gave way, and fortunately Jupiter still shared the field of view with Mars. A small amount of fog appeared momentarily this morning as well, but it did not interfere with the observation. Of Jupiter's moons, Kallisto was alone on the east side of Jupiter, on the west side of Io, Ganymedes and Europa.

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The night of complete super moon eclipse was sadly cloudy, but fortunately by five o'clock the sky was cracking enough to make an observation. According to the picture, I also drew clouds; the cracks were not large and the Moon never appeared for a long time. From about 5:20 the Cloud Cover condensed again, and the Moon no longer agreed to show up, so I stopped and left for breakfast.

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The surroundings of Tampere's Ursa observatory were exceptionally dark due to the street lights being switched off, and since the solar observation season is still going on, there was a small lens tube on the observation stand - just right for observing the screens.

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The Sun of the Day provided plenty of active areas, and on the northeastern edge of a rather fine filament-prominence complex.

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Comet C / 2014 Q2 Lovejoy was found this time without precise coordinates, even with the help of a search tube ten degrees west of Seulas. The moon did not interfere with observation, and the comet was also in a significantly higher sky compared to my previous drawing (January 5, 2015). The comet's coma was clearly visible; the tail still did not stand out visually, and gray was the only hue I observed. The coma was irregular in shape and had a noticeable fan-shaped shape - Lumicon's comet filter brought this to the fore. The 9.2 magnitude star TYC 1786-1293-1 at the bottom of the imag...

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As I spotted items on Charles Wood’s Lunar 100 list, my attention was drawn to the crater Neper, magnificently visible on the border of light and shadow, on the eastern edge of the Moon, whose central mountain peak was otherwise gleamed from inside an otherwise completely shaded crater. The shadow of the central mountain was nicely drawn on the crater wall. The view was very three-dimensional, and downright inviting to draw.

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Moon researcher Charles Wood's Lunar 100 list item number 47; The Alphonsus crater and especially the pyroclastic dark areas at its base around small eruption craters. At the bottom of Alphonsus are a total of 11 small eruption craters surrounded by a dark halo; the four largest dark halos stand out especially during the full moon (although the edge of Alphonsus itself is difficult to distinguish).

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Comet C / 2014 Q2 Lovejoy was found in the coordinates provided by the Starry Night program; the sky was illuminated by the full moon and quite bright. However, the comet's coma was clearly visible, but the tail did not stand out visually. The Lumicon comet filter did not significantly improve the view. In addition to the comet, only one star appeared in the image field, HIP 20992. I did not distinguish colors in the comet, but the core of the comet was quite dotted. An hour after the drawing, the comet had moved northwest of its eyes and was already north of the HIP 20992 star.

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