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
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 importance of the amateurs'
collaboration in the follow-up observation of NEOs and comets is immense
NEO Planner Amateur or professional IAU observatories are welcome to use NEO Planner. Actually version: V2.3.7. (March,29 2021) Have a look here for historical informations of K87 and other observers --> Hohmann's MPEC'able (Tracking News for Humans) and NEODyS
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 are generated by
self-written programs on .NET platform. Program from April, 14 2021 for K87 (Moon 7% waxing): last Script for Orchestrate and Template
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° |
IAU codes: B82 Maidbronn and K87 Dettelbach Vineyard Observatory |