Category Archives: Astronomy

Taking good pictures of astronomical objects is quite challenging. Especially if you don’t own highly advanced (and very expensive) equipment. For quite a long time I thought that the only celestial object which is in my reach to take good … Continue reading →

What makes a great observation night? You get to see a lot of things that you don’t get to see every day. This night (morning of May 31, 2011) was good weather and good sight. Basically I put out the … Continue reading →

Today I took videos of both the (near full) Moon and the (little past opposition) Saturn through my telescope. First the Moon: This one was captured with my old Kodak EasyShare C813. A camera which I bought 3 years ago … Continue reading →

Today was not a perfectly clear night, but good enough for some observations. Recently I found that the asteroid 6 Hebe is approaching opposition and therefor makes a good observation target, so I tried my luck finding it. The source … Continue reading →

There are some web-based observatories which allow normal people like you and I to rent a telescope somewhere on this planet for a short period of time and quite reasonable amount of money, to take some pictures. Not only is … Continue reading →

I took new pictures of the Moon (on August 21, 2010). They were taken through my Omegon Nightstar 25×100 binoculars.    There are more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpopp75/tags/moon/.