Astronomical observations

Some of my observations made since 1980

The Orion Nebula - 27 December 1980 - 40 mm OG


Fireball - 17 April 1984 - naked eye


Halley's Comet - December 1985 - 11 x 80 binoculars


Saturn - 22 June 1987 - 170 mm OG


 

The Moon amid the Pleiades - 6 August 1988 - 60 mm OG


Mars - 30 October 1988 - 300 mm Newtonian


Jupiter with Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact scars - 20 July 1994


 

Lunar occultation of Saturn - 12 November 1997 - 100 mm Maksutov


Total lunar eclipse (painting) - 27 September 1996 - 100 mm Maksutov


Janssen (CCD image and visual observation compared) - 23 March 2000 - 250 mm Newtonian


Comet A2 LINEAR 2001 - 14 July 2001 - 100mm Maksutov x30


Lunar occultation of Saturn - 16 April 2002


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