Friday, December 30, 2016

Comet 45P Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova

Last evening I caught a comet 45P (Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova) near the horizon (altitude <10 degrees).
It seems that comet's magnitude is about 7.5m.


Date/Time: 2016-12-30 ~17:23(UT+2)
Place: Kyiv
Crop 5x5 degrees
Canon EOS 600D + EF 50mm F/1.8 @2.5; 10 frames by 2s, ISO=800; Processed in DSS[20 offsets, 20 darks] + FITSwork4

Annotated picture (by nova.astrometry.net):

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Full Moon Corona

Full Moon last night [13-Dec-2016] surrounded by corona -- an optical phenomenon, which appears when light transmits through thin clouds.


[Canon EOS 600D + EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II. ISO 100; exposure 1/2s; F/5; focal length 146mm]


Animation (approximately 10 seconds):