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Ursa Astronomical Association
Kopernikuksentie 1
00130 Helsinki
taivaanvahti(at)ursa.fi

Ursa Astronomical Association

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Anticrepuscular rays

9.3.2023 at 17.59 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the shadow of the earth and also made the twilight bands visible.

Venus and Jupiter

2.3.2023 at 18.48 - Helsinki (IV)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the meeting of Venus and Jupiter in the evening sky. I also photographed Jupiter's moons Callisto, Ganymede, Europa and Io, which are in this order from top to bottom. As a bonus image, a landscape planet image that also shows an airplane.

Images: 2 pcs

Moon

2.3.2023 at 18.25 - Helsinki (IV)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the moon and made its craters appear well on the border between light and shadow.

Images: 2 pcs

Active aurora band

26.2.2023 at 23.13 - 23.17 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the green northern lights with a wide-angle lens and an IPhone 13 phone. I got them to show up with exposures of about half a second and a big value of 3200 well.

Images: 5 pcs

Earth's shadow

26.2.2023 at 17.29 - 17.39 - Helsinki (IV)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the shadow of the earth from the balcony and took a photo of the sunset as a bonus photo.

Images: 2 pcs

Moon, Venus and Jupiter

22.2.2023 at 18.30 - Helsinki (IV)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the meeting of the Moon, Jupiter and Venus in the evening sky.

Images: 3 pcs

Several halo forms

22.2.2023 at 17.15 - Helsinki (II)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the setting of the Sun and I could see halo effects.

Images: 3 pcs

M42

13.2.2023 at 18.30 - Helsinki (IV)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I imaged Orion's gas nebula M42 by stacking 23 2-second exposures with DeepSkyStacker. I post-processed the image with the Photo Director 365 program.

Images: 2 pcs

Landscape image of a planet

11.2.2023 at 18.14 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed Venus as a landscape planet image and also got Jupiter as a bonus image for the same image.

Images: 2 pcs

Earth's shadow

11.2.2023 at 17.05 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the shadow of the earth and as a bonus image the last rays of the sun.

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 2 pcs

M42

10.2.2023 at 18.52 - Helsinki (I)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the Orion gas nebula by stacking 21 images with DeepSkyStacker. Image post-processed with PhotoDirect 365 program.

Comments: 2 pcs

M42

6.2.2023 at 19.00 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I imaged the M42 Orion gas nebula by stacking 16 2 second exposures with DeepSkyStacker. As a bonus image, the Orion constellation as a landscape constellation.

Images: 2 pcs

Landscape image of a planet

6.2.2023 at 17.57 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed Venus with an iPhone 13 as a landscape planet image.

M45

4.2.2023 at 20.17 - Kirkkonummi (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the Pleiades at the University of Helsinki observatory by stacking 17 2-second exposures with DeepSkyStacker.

Moon

4.2.2023 at 20.06 - Kirkkonummi (IV)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the full moon at the observatory of the University of Helsinki and I was also able to photograph the spinning of the moon.

Images: 2 pcs

Telescopic comet

4.2.2023 at 19.45 - 20.00 - Kirkkonummi (III)
Tuomas Salo, Teemu Willamo, Mikael Turkki, Ursa (Helsinki)

We imaged comet C/2022 E3 at the University of Helsinki observatory using 2-minute and 10-minute exposures.

Images: 2 pcs

Moon

30.1.2023 at 17.56 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the moon through a thin cloud and got a good view of its craters.

Images: 2 pcs

Moon

27.1.2023 at 19.40 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I took a picture of the moon and got its craters clearly visible. I also got to see the country house.

Images: 3 pcs

Jupiter

27.1.2023 at 19.39 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed Jupiter and its moons Europa and Callisto. I was also able to see background stars.

Images: 2 pcs

Moon

26.1.2023 at 19.07 - Helsinki (III)
Tuomas Salo, Ursa (Helsinki)

I photographed the sickle of the moon and also made the earthworks visible. I also shot the moon and Jupiter with the iPhone 13 in the same picture, which also shows a bit of Earth.

Images: 3 pcs

Search result contains observations from time period 1.1.2000 klo 00.00 - 24.3.2023 klo 8.19.