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Rocket-related clouds

23.3.2023 at 20.24 - Taivassalo (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Very low from southern Finland, but the rocket launch was still caught on the sky camera. The last image is the maximum stack of images showing the barium cloud.

Images: 4 pcs

Half-sky auroras

23.3.2023 at 20.20 - 00.00 - Taivassalo (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

It was great again, but the fog came and after ten o'clock we haven't seen much. A bit before eleven, however, kajo has been seen even through the fog/clouds. At first I suspected some kind of disturbance, but apparently the activity has increased just at that time, so it must be the northern lights.

Images: 2 pcs

Half-sky auroras

15.3.2023 at 23.10 - 05.10 - Taivassalo (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

It was a handsome set again, especially the red one has been well displayed again.

Images: 5 pcs

Venus and Jupiter

1.3.2023 at 20.53 - Turku (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

It's good that this meeting was captured a day earlier, at the minimum distance, because the sky was blocked at the h-moment.

Half-sky auroras

27.2.2023 at 19.15 - 06.00 - Taivassalo (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Another wonderful aurora night after the previous one. This time I really went out, but it's just a shame that it was precisely for that break between nine and ten. Maybe next time... After all, the sky camera showed what it missed.

Images: 4 pcs

Half-sky auroras

26.2.2023 at 22.00 - 06.00 - Taivassalo (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

The sky camera's collection of the night's events. I wish I could have wondered live... The reddish tone is confusingly attention-grabbing.

Images: 8 pcs

Crepuscular rays

14.2.2023 at 18.10 - Turku (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

A nice sunset and twilight rays. Maybe there would have been a little pearly brown included at some point.

Comments: 1 pcs

A fireball at night, brighter than the venus

10.2.2023 at 21.37 - Taivassalo (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Based on a few other observations, it was found on the camera, even though there has been some kind of cloud in between.

Pearl clouds

26.1.2023 at 17.25 - Turku (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

There was a handsome weave after a long period of rain. The Sun alone would have been enough, but this is fine too.

A fireball at night, as bright as a full moon

12.9.2022 at 21.43 - Taivassalo (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Pitkän Viirun was left on camera by this fireball. It has been obviously spectacular.

Comments: 4 pcs

A fireball at night, as bright as a full moon

10.9.2022 at 03.21 - Taivassalo (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Based on another observation, this was also found in my own sky camera.

Comments: 1 pcs

Rocket-related clouds

13.8.2022 at 01.54 - 01.58 - Taivassalo (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

I didn't see a single Perseid, and I apparently went to bed a little too early for this rocket launch, but I still got a nice streak on the sky camera. #raketti: Falcon 9

A fireball at night, as bright as a full moon

11.11.2021 at 04.52 - Taivassalo (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Sky camera image of a bright fireball.

Rare halos

6.10.2020 at 01.20 - Taivassalo (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

A halo fetched through a little harder again. I looked at a picture of the sky camera somewhere and noticed a ring around the Moon. As I later went through the images through the night, the 120 ° side moon, which had been visible for a couple of minutes, hit my eyes. Unfortunately, the Moon itself is left out of the picture, but yes at least the ring and the top side can be distinguished in some of the pictures.

Images: 3 pcs • Comments: 3 pcs

A fireball at night, brigter than the venus

11.8.2020 at 02.52 - Taivassalo (III)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

A lonely ass was left in the sky camera.

Rare halos

19.7.2020 at 12.00 - 18.00 - Taivassalo (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

There was a suitable high cloud in the sky all afternoon and at least 22 ° the ring seemed to be visible in some form whenever it happened to look at the sky. At some point the horizon ring also hit the eye, and in that halo, when, according to previous experience, it has been customary in similar circumstances to come and go and therefore appear in the sky camera comfortably, in time for the video of the afternoon. In the video, the counter-sun flashed for a couple of minutes a little after noon and, more closely, Wegener. These were indeed barely visible for barely five minutes. I took an av...

Images: 3 pcs • Comments: 1 pcs

Bright night shining clouds

16.7.2020 at 00.00 - 03.30 - Taivassalo (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

An image and video of the sky camera from last night's balance. The video shows interestingly how big belts move slowly in the exact opposite direction than more detailed faster moving clouds.

Images: 2 pcs

Faint naked-eye comet NEOWISE

12.7.2020 at 01.40 - Taivassalo (II)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

We had to try to detect this too, when we can't get any worse than comets. There were ancient binoculars for the purpose of traversing terrestrial objects. The intention was to set off from Capella, to search for Menkalina, and to continue the lines of the two approximately the same as where the comet should be found. The line from Capella obviously went long, because the next, without lying in ten seconds, Neowise was already in the middle of the field of view. The comet was confusingly bright and even the ancient binoculars showed details of the tail. I was determined to get an observati...

Images: 2 pcs • Comments: 1 pcs

Eye-catching night shining clouds

10.7.2020 at 00.00 - 03.30 - Taivassalo (V)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

Quite a night. The night clouds were wide and bright, especially the belt going over the zenith from northwest to southeast was a magnificent revelation.

Images: 3 pcs

Bright night shining clouds

9.7.2020 at 02.00 - Taivassalo (IV)
Juuso Nurmio, Ursa (Länsi-Suomi)

At night, when we went out quickly, there were quite bright night clouds in the north. Low clouds made it much more difficult to define the shapes or scope, but without the other clouds there would certainly have been a spectacular set.

Search result contains observations from time period 1.1.2000 klo 00.00 - 31.3.2023 klo 00.23.