Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF) wandering near the North Star as seen from our own light-polluted backyard. The tube was Meade's 10-inch SCT, visually the comet was just separated from the background. In a dark place, this would probably stand out more clearly. I attached an old mirrorless Canon EOS-M camera to the tube and with that the comet became more clearly visible. The picture shows 10 pieces of 15s exposures, the tripod was I-Optron's AZ Pro alt/az goto tripod, without guidance. No flats, the images were in JPG format, so the possibility of adjusting the final image was very limited. The...

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The sky brightened up for a while on Christmas Day evening, and since eating ham was already getting dull, I included star photography in the program. After initial difficulties, I aimed the tube at this small planetary nebula IC 5217 (PNG 100.6-05.4) found in the constellation Sisilisko. The object is only 7 arcseconds in size. The brightness is 11.3 mag, so the surface brightness is still good. Due to its small size, it is very difficult to see any details. However, the more skilled ones in the world have also made the internal structure visible with a planetary camera and short exposures. I...

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The rarely imaged planetary nebula Sharpless 1-89 (SH1-89, PNG 089.8-00.6) can be found in the constellation Cygnus quite close to the more imaged North America nebula. The central area of the nebula is about 1 arcminute in size, the dim outer parts extend farther, the nebula as a whole is about 5 arcminutes in diameter. I also call the fog the Moth nebula. The structure of the nebula is bipolar, where the brighter core region is well visible in the 0III band and the outer dim parts are better visible in H-Alpha. An interesting detail is that tail visible in h-alpha. As the first image, the im...

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Imatra had surprisingly good weather all day and I was able to photograph the entire eclipse. This time I used a mobile phone as a camera with an eyepiece adapter. The tube was a Herschell Tal100RS wedge iron. The attached photo was taken at 1:13 p.m., a little before the maximum moment. This time too, I noted that the light and colors of the landscape become somehow louder as the eclipse progresses.

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Deep Sky Digiscoping. I got Celesteron's smartphone adapter and tried whether it is possible to take deep sky pictures through the eyepiece of the telescope with a modern cell phone. The target was the old familiar Messier 27, i.e. lifting pressure nebula, the Samsung Galaxy S20FE phone as the camera and Celestron's C14 as the telescope. Eyepiece 32mm. Here are 25 15s exposures stacked and processed. The picture has had to be cropped from the original size, because the stars on the edges stretch. The second image is an unprocessed screen from the phone. It is planned to tell more about...

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(388945) 2008 TZ3 (2008 TZ3) The Apollo NEO / PHA nasteroid was filmed on the second night of the April 2022 campaign. The asteroid was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on October 6, 2008 at the Mount Lemmon Observatory (G96) . A total estimate of 290m. (0.219-0.490 km). Rotation speed 39.15h / r. When photographed, the asteroid was at a distance of 0.1110au and the nearest 15 May 2022 0.03838au. 1Picture. first image in the series1 L120s measured, 2022-04-23T 21: 49: 40UT 2459693.40949JDUT 12h31m40.18s + 19d24'12.1 "17.306mag Std Dev 167.135 SNR28.537 FWHM7.467", JPL Horizon 21: 49: ...

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90471 Andrewdrake (2001 KV49,2004 CF98) The asteroid on the inner edge of the main zone was photographed on the second night of the April 2022 work. When we photographed the NEO asteroid 2021 VM25, this also came into the picture. The asteroid was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey (703-Catalina Sky Survey) at the Catalina Observatory on February 14, 2004. The asteroid was named after Dr. Andrew J. Drake (b. 1969) from Australia. Center for Advanced Computing Research (Caltech, USA) Size 1.9km. There is no data on the asteroid in addition to the orbital data. When photographed, the asteroid...

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2021 VM25 (2021 VM25) The asteroid Amor NEO was photographed on the second night of April 2022. The cupid asteroid was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on 14 November 2021 at Mount Lemmon Observatory (G96). Size estimate (220 m - 492 m). There is no orbital information about this asteroid. When photographed, the asteroid was at a distance of 0.1018au and the nearest April 10, 2022 0.072au. 1Picture. first image in the series1 L60s measured, 2022-04-23T 21: 25: 32UT 2459693.39273JDUT 12h34m29.26s + 05d01'57.2 "17.408mag Std Dev 162.477 SNR29.364 FWHM3.585", JPL Horizon 21: 25: 32UT 12h...

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2022 HB (2022 HB) The Apollo NEO / PHA asteroid was photographed on the second night of the April 2022 work. The asteroid was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial- Impact Last Alert System "(ATLAS) search program at the ATLAS-HKO Observatory (T05 ATLAS-HKO, Haleakala) with a 50cm telescope on April 18, 2022. 4 days after its discovery is the closest observation we have made since the day of the discovery! 1Picture. first image in the series1 L60s measured, 2022-04-23T 20: 38: 53UT 2459693.36033JDUT 14h07m57.79s + 18d36'46.7 "16.642mag Std Dev 146.354 SNR21.227 FWHM4.934", JPL Horizon 20:...

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10109 Sidhu (1992 KQ, 1987 HN) The asteroid in the central zone of the main zone was photographed on the second night of the April 2022 work. The asteroid of the Eunomia family was discovered by Eleanor Francis "Glo" at the Helin Palomar Observatory (code 675) on May 29, 1992. The asteroid is named after the Indian-Canadian amateur astronomer Askarn Singh "Sid" Sidhu. He joined the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada at the Victoria Center in 1985 and has been a mentor to new members. Sidhu coordinates the borrowing of telescopes owned by the center and the club’s school program. News of the ...

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NGC 3367 SN2022ewj Type II supernova was filmed on the first night of the April 2022 work. The lion's NGC 3367 is 120 million years old. away, several supernova eruptions have occurred in this galaxy. Source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3367. The last Supernova was discovered by the Japanese Koichi Itagaki at the Itagaki Astronomical Observatory on March 19, 2022, in the spiral galaxy NGC 3367. Koichi Itagaki has found 3 asteroids as well as comets C / 2009 E1 (Itagaki) and again 205P / Giacobini. Source Wikipedia https://en.frwiki.wiki/wiki/Koichi_Itagaki. Previously, we ph...

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(7335) 1989 AND (1989 JA) The asteroid Apollo NEO / PHA was photographed on the first night of the April 2022 work. The asteroid was discovered by Eleanor Francis "Glo" at the Helin Palomar Observatory (code 675) on May 1, 1989. The total estimate for the asteroid is 1.8km (NEOWISE 0.932 ± 0.153 km) and the rotation estimate is 12h / r (Arecibo and Goldstone), estimate spectral class S. Source Wikipedia https: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(7335)_1989_JA . When photographed, the asteroid was at a distance of 0.2815au and the nearest May 27, 2022 0.027 au. 1Picture. first image in the series1 L120s m...

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54598 Bienor (2000 QC243) The centaur was filmed on the first night of the April 2022 campaigns. The DES search program discovered the asteroid on August 27, 2000 at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. The size of the asteroid is 187.5km and the rotation speed is 9.14h / r. The asteroid will enter Perihel in January 2028 13.2au. When photographing the asteroid was 14,465au away. We have photographed this object earlier in the March 2022 work. Now we photographed with the method of two observations where the interval between exposures was about 2h. This distant object required...

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1019 Strackea (A924 ES, 1924 QN) The asteroid at the inner edge of the main zone was photographed on the first night of the April 2022 troops. The Hungaria family of asteroids was discovered by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observatory on March 3, 1924. The asteroid was named after the German astronomer Gustav Stracke (1887-1943). Source Wikipedia https://en.frwiki.wiki/wiki/Gustav_Stracke . The size of the asteroid is 7.16km and the rotation speed is 4.044h / r. Spectrum class spec_T => S stone. When photographed, the asteroid was at a distance of 1.0477au and ...

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326 Tamara (1899 OD, A892 FD, A899 OD) The asteroid on the inner edge of the main zone was photographed on the first night of the April 2022 work. The asteroid of the Tamara family of the Phokaea group was discovered at the Johann Palisa Wine Observatory on March 19, 1892. Source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/326_Tamara . The asteroid is named after Queen Tamar the Great of Georgia (c. 1160-1213). Tamar ruled during a very difficult time when he was conducting considerable military operations around his kingdom. Source Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar_of_Georgia . The si...

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(468861) 2013 LU28 (2013 LU28,2014 LJ9,2015 KB157) The Centaur / Damocloid was filmed on the second night of the February 2022 work. The centaur asteroid was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on June 8, 2013 at Mount Lemmon Observatory (G96) at a magnitude of 21.7. Definition of Damocloid Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damocloids . Definition of Centaur Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentauri_(little planet) . The definitions of the target asteroid are a bit contradictory, so the common definition fits well as the MPC has used it. The transneptune asteroid has a retrograd...

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The constellation of the fox has a planetary nebula NGC 6842 with a size of about 1 arc minute and 14 mag. I put together a HOO version of these with red H-alpha and blue and green OIII. This is an planetary with an interesting shape and quite a lot of detail. The richly stretched negative shows a peculiar hazy part between 8 and 9 p.m., the peculiarity is that it seems to stand out more clearly in the OIII channel. The first is the HOO version Second OIII channel 30x600s, third OIII negative, fourth H-alpha channel 24x600s, Fifth H-alpha negative

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In the constellation of the dragon, right next to the Swan, there is one of the planetary nebulae on the Abell list, Abell 50. The object is also listed on the NGC list under number 6742. The nebula is a little over 30 arcseconds very noticeable from a dark spot with a 20cm tube and an OIII filter. When photographed, both OIII and H-alpha gave an almost similar result. I collected a HOO version of the picture where H-alpha is placed in red and OIII in blue and green color channels. This small object does not seem to have been photographed very diligently, although it is very noticeable and can...

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(21601) 1998 XO89 (1998 XO89,2000 AK195) The Trojan asteroid of Jupiter was photographed on the first night of the September 2021 troops. The L4 Athenian group of asteroids were discovered by the LINEAR Socorro exploration program, (704 Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico) on December 15, 1998. The size of the asteroid is 54.90km and the rotational speed is 12.65h / r. Estimated spectral class dark C. When photographed, the asteroid was at a distance of 5,096au and the closest on December 6, 2021 to 4,108au. 1Picture. first image in the series1 L120s measured, 2021-09-04UT 00: 01: 15UT 2459461....

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(434431) 2005 NC7 (2005 NC7) The asteroid Mars Crossing was photographed on the first night of the September 2021 work. An unusual asteroid was discovered by Spacewatch (code 691) at the Kitt Peak National Observatory on July 5, 2005. Unusual asteroids are those with unusual orbital properties such as comet-like large eccentricities and orbital slopes, source Wikipedia https://en.wikinew.wiki/wiki/Unusual_minor_planet . Total estimate 3.4km. When photographed, the asteroid was 0.496au at a distance and 0.475au at its nearest September 19, 2021. 1Picture. first image in the series1 L120s measur...

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