Mid-August is Perseid metor shower time, so a few of us gathered together on a Odenwald hill to enjoy the show.
Location: Neutsch
And indeed, the showers had been more active than we could rememer in the past years. The peak was already on 11th and we a few days late, but have a look:
Gallery by Carsten: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GdsTeu9cFWB8xPkQ7 (photos from others may follow once available)
Holger Krämer was also doing a lot of astrophotography on the North-America Nebula, Heart Nebula, Triangle Galaxy, Dumbbell Nebula,….see them on link the link above!
Above all, we did manual DSO chasing (Deep Sky/Space Objects):
- Clusters
- M2, M13 (Great Hercules Cluster), M15, M22, M30, M45 (Pleiades), M92, NGC 869 and NGC 884 (Double Cluster)
- Nebula
- M8 (Lagoon), M16, M17, (M20 Triffid), M27 (Dumbbell), M57 (Ring)
- Galaxies
- M31 (Andromeda), M33 (Triangle), M81(Bode), M82 (Cigar)
- Planets
- Jupiter, Saturn (we forgot Neptune/Uranus!)
- Other
- Recurring Nova RS Ophiuchi
- Meteors, Satellites, Thunderstorm over Rothenburg area, 160km south-east from our location!
Please comment if you had been able to catch some thign of the Perseid shower
Clear Skies
Carsten (Club Chair)