Bernhard's comets and asteroids IAU codes: B82 Maidbronn (retired) and K87 Dettelbach Vineyard Observatory
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Copyright: Photo montage performed by Bernhard Häusler, Germany Gravity doesn't require a nudge
A warm welcome to all friends of comets and minor planets!
We are living on a beautyful planet, surrounded in space from its large and small
brothers and sisters since unimaginable times.
The
collaboration of amateurs in the follow-up
observation of
Near
Earth
Objects and comets
is important
And I
call on every amateur not only to photograph the beloved deep-sky objects and
planets, but also to actively participate Congratulations to Christophe Demeautis from K19 PASTIS Observatory, Banon, France on discovering NEO 2022 BU1 and NEO 2022 HE3 this year!!! NEO Planner is for free, code-protected and works for all IAU stations worldwide. Current users: K87, K74, B72, G04, G19, K19, C95 (Germany and France) Amateur or professional observers are welcome to use NEO Planner. Current version: V4.1.1 (June,24 2022)
NEO Planner is able to calculate the exposure times, the
required number of exposures and the positions of currently observable comets,
NEO and NEOCP objects
In addition, NEO Planner automatically monitors the NEOCP
and provides the user with important current changes, both visually and, if
desired, acoustically.
If desired, the planning and ephemeris can be uploaded to
a website to be followed from any location and browser.
The Integration of NEO Planner into the ASCOM based Nighttime
Imaging 'N' Astronomy program
N.I.N.A. by Stefan
Berg about XML and JSON formats
New from version 4:
NEO Planner now supports up to 5 cameras and equipment. A NEO search function
has been added to the planner. And many features more... Have a look here for historical informations of K87 and other observers --> Hohmann's MPEC'able (Tracking News for Humans) and NEODyS NEW: Customizable graphical platform of NEO and comet discoveries since 2020: The discoveries of the K88 GINOP-KHK, Piszkesteto observatory in Hungary from 2020 to mid-March 2022 are presented here. A small 2 meter
asteroid impacting the earth was reported to the MPC by K. Sarneczky on station
K88 GINOP-KHK, Piszkesteto in Hungary and tracked by him. Congratulations to K. Sarneczky at station K88 GINOP-KHK for this exciting discovery and his professional tracking and reporting of the object.
The auto-guiding telescope (LX600) and the cmos-camera (QHY600L) are fully automatic controlled by the
programs Orchestrate and TheSky X Pro of Software Bisque over the night session.
Both the following template and the script for Orchestrate and
the XML and JSON scripts for N.I.N.A. are generated by
self-written programs on .NET platform. Last Program from June, 22 2022 for K87 (rough draft): Last Script for Orchestrate and Template, XML and JSON for N.I.N.A. © Copyright: The data comes from official access to web services from MPC, JPL, NASA and ESA, whose origins are the tireless measurements of dozens of professional and amateur observatories around the world © Copyright: The data comes from official access to web services from MPC, JPL, NASA and ESA, whose origins are the tireless measurements of dozens of professional and amateur observatories around the world
All parameters of the template are calculated for my equipment on
location K87 and based on expected
SQM results from Mag/SqArcsec 20 and weaker
within the observation slot. Asteroid of the day: 1999 RM45 from March, 1 2021 20:46UT MPC JPL orbit
animation of 96 images with 2.9 seconds exposure time each,
speed: 65 arcsec/min in P.A. 279.8, V~14.0 detail
Comet of the day: C/2021 A4 (NEOWISE) from March, 1 2021 18:27UT MPC JPL orbit
animation of six images with 48.5 seconds exposure time each,
speed: 4 arcsec/min in P.A. 197.2, V~16.3 detail Some events of the last years: September, 21 2020 - first night half
Around midnight a bright
shooting star of the Southern Piscids crossed Andromeda
and Lacerta
© 2020-09-21 by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany
15sec. exposure,
2020-09-20 UT23:09, local time 01:09, taken with ZWO ASI178MC, 8mm
f/1.4 lens, 1/2.7"; SQM: MPSAS 21.03 mag, NELM 6.1 mag The red cross marks the radiant of the Southern Piscids meteor shower, annual maximum: September 20th. Mars is in the lower left. In this paper by P. B. Babadzhanov - I. P. Williams - G. I. Kokhirova from 2007, the connection between the September Piscids and some Near Earth objects is discussed. Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn came together this morning with the beautiful comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE. A moment to pause and think about the beauty and size of our universe. This morning made my face smile.
I left my telescope with its automatic scanning of the sky and drove a
few kilometers to the highest elevation nearby. C/2020 F3 NEOWISE in Auriga, Lynx on the left. Menkalinan in Auriga is the brightest star top right. © 2020-07-12 by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany double size 1.9MB original size 10MB
4sec. exposure,
2020-07-12 UT01:38, local time 03:38, 70mm f/3.2, Canon EOS 5D Mark II and
EF70-200mm f/2.8L ISII USM mounted on a tripod, ISO1000, SQM 19.6 mag The wind turbines with their warning lights on the horizon are approx. 27.5 km (17 miles) away. C/2020 F3 NEOWISE in Auriga © 2020-07-12 by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany larger image click here
4sec. exposure,
2020-07-12 UT01:20, local time 03:20, 170mm f/3.2, Canon EOS 5D Mark II and
EF70-200mm f/2.8L ISII USM mounted on a tripod, ISO1250, SQM 20.1 mag
The
Apollo
asteroid 2020 MX3 was first observed at
F51 Pan-STARRS 1 on 2020-06-28.
NEO Apollo 2020 MX3 will pass the Earth on July, 29 2020 in 0.02413176 AU distance ~ 3,610,060 km ~ 2,243,176 miles Here you can see a gif animation of this small object:
© 2020-07-28 by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany West left North up
66 7.3sec. exposures,
2020-07-28 UT00:09, 0.30-m f/6.15 SCT + CCD Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) is probably starting a desintegration process.
There are two dots westward the central condensation. The comet tail is looking more and more like a cigar. Here you find a light curve of the comet on CometasObs showing a decrease of the central magnitude since March, 28 2020
In comparison an image of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) during its desintegration process... and one week before 2020 FR3 is an Apollo type asteroid and classified as a PHA. The small body passed a weak galaxy cluster in the Western edge region of constellation LEO close to the bounder of CANCER
NEO and Amor 2018 NB on July,19 2018
10 x
20sec. exposure, 2018-07-19 UT 01:18, 12" SCT
f-5.66 + CCD ST10XME, Animation of 100 20sec. exposures, 01:12UT - 01:54UT, 42 minutes in reality ~ 1.5 sec. in animation last observed comets:
C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2018-02-16 B/W
composed 31 2min. exposures,
2018-02-16 UT18:42, 0.30-m f/1646.2mm ACF-SCT + CCD
C/2016 A1 (PANSTARRS) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2018-02-06 B/W
composed 33 120sec. exposures,
2018-02-06 UT22:32, 0.30-m f/2240.2mm SCT + CCD
C/2016 A1 (PANSTARRS) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2018-02-06 B/W animated 64 2min.exp, 2018-02-06 UT21:23 - 23:41; asteroid on the left side: 34286, 18.1 mag
C/2016 N4 (MASTER) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2017-09-22 B/W
composed 35 60sec. exposures, 2017-09-22 UT21:37, 0.30-m
f/1873.1mm SCT + CCD
C/2015 V2 (Johnson) by Bernhard Haeusler, 2017-05-20 B/W
composed 10 30sec. exposures, 2017-05-20 UT22:12, 0.30-m
f/1873.1mm SCT + CCD, IP: DDP low pass
41/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak © by Bernhard Haeusler, 2017-05-01 B/W
composed 90 20sec. exposures,
2017-05-01 UT01:54, 0.30-m f/1875mm SCT + CCD, IP: DDP Kernel low
pass
Right: Video of 70 frames of 20 seconds exp.time each, 2017-05-01 UT01:54
45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova © by Bernhard Haeusler, 2017-03-26 B/W
composed 36 2min. exposures,
2017-03-26 UT20:10, 0.30-m f/1875mm SCT + CCD,
Right: Video of 35 frames of 2 minutes exp.time each, 2017-03-26
UT20:10 - UT21:24 Flash of the Satellite IRIDIUM 86, Mirror 2 on February,13 2018 with -2.5 mag IRIDIUM 86 © 2018-02-13 by Bernhard Haeusler, Dettelbach, Germany
detail of 1 15 sec. exposure,
2018-02-13 UT 17:56:32, camera: ZWO ASI 178 MC Color, allsky lens: 2.5mm,
f-1.2 170° |
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