Observatii Ianuarie-Martie 2017/Observations January-March 2017-Part II

Observations January-March 2017- P II

The Moon on 10 February through the lens of Coolpix S 3300 , mounted on a Velbon tripod.

Afocal pictures on 23 February 2017  : TS 100mm F/14 Maksutov - Cassegrainian at 56x / Sirius Plossl 25mm ,Coolpix S3300 , DIY pipe -mount.

The region of Merope in Pleiades

Messier 44 or Praesepe

Mizar ,Alcor , Sidus Ludoviciana

Regulus A+BC

Sigma Tauri

Cor Caroli /Alpha Canum Venaticorum 

Sirius and Venus on 25 of February , only  Coolpix S3300 :

Sirius

Venus

Venus on 27 February , surrounded by a halo.
In the picture ,the diameter of the ''Venusian'' halo is smaller than what I saw visually.
Visually ,the diameter of the halo was about half the length of a brick also visible in the picture.
Knowing the distance to the wall and the dimensions of a brick and  using the ''arctan'' function I found for the halo a diameter of 0,32 degree or 19 minutes of arc.

On 28 February Venus was close to the two days old Moon.

Trying to capture the Winter Hexagon  with Coolpix S3300 , I missed Capella.

On the 3-rd of March I took afocal pics of the Moon in the day light using my 90X600mm  RFT refractor  at 24x / Sirius Plossl 25mm +Coolpix S3300 + SV Bony Moon&Skyglow filter.

This is a ''day light'' picture  of the Moon taken with only the Coolpix S3300 camera.

In the dusk  of the same day the Moon , Mars and Venus were lined on the Western sky .

On 4 March the Moon was in conjunction with Aldebaran as recorded below by the Coolpix S3300 camera.

For visual and afocal pictures of the Moon I used that night my trusty RFT 90x600mm refractor made by ''zoth''.
The Moon in my RFT 90x600mm refractor at 24x /Sirius Plossl 25mm.

On 13 March the Full Moon ,known as ''Worm Moon'' ,accompanied by Jupiter to the South , put up for a nice and colorful show !

 Arcturus spying through the branches ,at left !

On March 15 I was finally successful at recording the Winter Hexagon and the Winter Triangle.

Just in time !

The full Winter Hexagon :

The Winter Triangle :

Observatii Ianuarie-Martie 2017 /Observations January-March 2017-Part I

Observatii Ianuarie -Martie 2017 / P 1

Conjunction of Mars and Neptune as seen on January 2 through my 125mm F/7 Newtonian at 173x/Vixen 5mm orthoscopic ocular.

Neptun and Mars / 2 January 2017

Conjunction of Moon and Aldebaran on 9 January 2017

A somewhat closer look at the Moon-Aldebaran conjunction of 9 January 2017

Visual observation of the Moon-Aldebaran conjunction on 9 January through my 45mmx300mm ''beer bottle'' refractor at 12x / 25mm Sirius Plossl.

Moon-Aldebaran Conjunction on 9 january 2017

The main stars of Orion as recorded by the Nikon Coolpix S3300 camera on 9 of January.

Orion

Labeled picture of the main stars of Orion.

Beta Eridani is also visible.

Main stars of Orion

The Pleiades seen by Coolpix S3300 , January 9.

Only six stars.

Poor limiting magnitude , my best naked eyes observation counts more stars than this picture.

Messier 45 in the Coolpix S3300 camera

Venus ,bottom right corner and Mars ,middle top

Venus and Mars above background trees on 9 of January.

Gamma Leporis ,Sigma 747 ,Sigma Ori and Sigma 761 observed with the 45mm refractor stopped down to an aperture of 25mm.

The aim was to reenact some early double star observations.

The refractor was operating in the straight-through mode at 13x with a DIY -23mm Galilean ocular.

Gamma Leporis 

Sigma 747 in Orion 

Sigma Ori and Sigma 761 Ori

 On 18 January I start to juggle with filters.
Here we see the observations of the Merope Nebula known also as Tempels Nebula or NGC 1435.
And of the Messier1 and of Venus.
I was  using my 125mm F/7 Dobsonian and an Optolong UHC filter on Mesier1 and NGC 1435.
At Venus I used a Green #56 color filter.
Filters are not doing miracles but are useful accesories.

NGC 1435

Messier 1 

Venus