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My feb Observing Highlights!
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by martinastro
Martin Mc Kenna
coruscations attending the whole length of the luminosity, giving to the phenomena the aspect of a wrathful messenger, and not that of a tranquil body pursuing a harmless course..comet of 1680
My feb Observing Highlights! was created by martinastro
1) 2 Solar Upper Tangent Arcs
2) 4 x 22* amazing Sun halos
3) 1 Sun Pillar
4) 6 Sundogs
5) 1 section of Parhelic Circle
6) 1 Circumzenithal Arc
7) Several wonderful displays of Crepuscular Rays and Lenticular clouds.
8 1 Moon Dog
9) several stunning Lunar Coronae
10) 1 Lunar Upper Tangent Arc
11) 3 Spectacular 22* Moon Halos
12) 3 Moon Pillars
13) Zodical Light
14) 2 Gegenschein Observations
15) Mercury Observations and Images
16) Found faint Galaxy NGC7457 during a comet search..a new object to my collection.
17) Got my Mercury Image on www.spaceweather.com
18 My Geminid Meteor report and Aurora image in Astronomy & Space Magazine.
19) Gegenschein, Taurid Fireball report and Independant SOHO comet dis in Astronomy & Space Magazine.
20) Got my Orion image on CD ROM of BBC Sky & Night Magazine.
21) Attended excellent Lectuer on Comets and Asteroids at Queens University By Pro Alan Fitzsimmons!
22) Got only 7 hours 58 mins of comet hunting done due to cloudy weather bringing my total to 889 hours 37 mins where i have picked up 3071 telescopic satellites and 269 telescopic meteors.
Despite the weather observing has been good plus there was the exciting outburst of RS Ophiuchi and a large Gamma ray burst on my birthday lol. March has started of very interesting indeed with heavy snow showers and a bright comet in the morning sky!
2) 4 x 22* amazing Sun halos
3) 1 Sun Pillar
4) 6 Sundogs
5) 1 section of Parhelic Circle
6) 1 Circumzenithal Arc
7) Several wonderful displays of Crepuscular Rays and Lenticular clouds.
8 1 Moon Dog
9) several stunning Lunar Coronae
10) 1 Lunar Upper Tangent Arc
11) 3 Spectacular 22* Moon Halos
12) 3 Moon Pillars
13) Zodical Light
14) 2 Gegenschein Observations
15) Mercury Observations and Images
16) Found faint Galaxy NGC7457 during a comet search..a new object to my collection.
17) Got my Mercury Image on www.spaceweather.com
18 My Geminid Meteor report and Aurora image in Astronomy & Space Magazine.
19) Gegenschein, Taurid Fireball report and Independant SOHO comet dis in Astronomy & Space Magazine.
20) Got my Orion image on CD ROM of BBC Sky & Night Magazine.
21) Attended excellent Lectuer on Comets and Asteroids at Queens University By Pro Alan Fitzsimmons!
22) Got only 7 hours 58 mins of comet hunting done due to cloudy weather bringing my total to 889 hours 37 mins where i have picked up 3071 telescopic satellites and 269 telescopic meteors.
Despite the weather observing has been good plus there was the exciting outburst of RS Ophiuchi and a large Gamma ray burst on my birthday lol. March has started of very interesting indeed with heavy snow showers and a bright comet in the morning sky!
Martin Mc Kenna
coruscations attending the whole length of the luminosity, giving to the phenomena the aspect of a wrathful messenger, and not that of a tranquil body pursuing a harmless course..comet of 1680
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