Things I've seen in
the Sky at Night


Comets

Bradfield 1987s
Liller 1988a
Macholz 1988j
P/Temple 2 1987g
P/Brorsen-Metcalf 1989o
Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko 1989r
Levy 1990c
Tsuchiya-Kiuchi 1990i
Zanotta-Brewington 1990g1
Shoemaker-Levy 1991a1
P/Swift-Tuttle 1992t
Mueller 1993a
Hyakutake
Hale-Bopp
Lee
Linear S4

Novae and Supernovae

nova Cygni 92
SN93J
nova Cas 93
SN1994D
nova Oph 94
SN98? in Leo
SN1999BY
Nova Aql 99#2

Quasars

QSO 3C273

Planets

Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

Solar Eclipses

partial: 3
total: 1 (Turkey, 1999-8-11)

Various

a large sunspot with the naked eye on the setting sun (without filters),
Aurora Borealis... in Belgium! (51° latitude) 1989-11-7, 
3 black spots on Jupiter, made by impacting comet SL9, 
4 geostationary satellites in the same view of the telescope, 
globular clusters, emission nebulae, open clusters, galaxies,  
hundreds of meteors, space debris in front and after MIR, space
shuttle Discovery, clouds on Jupiter, shadow on Jupiter by one of
its moons, a satellite crossing the sun while looking at sunspots,
colourful doublestars, Venus during the day, an Iridium flare in broad
daylight, asteroids, NOSS spy satellites, the straight wall on the moon, a gap in the
rings of Saturn, polar cap on Mars, erupting dwarf novae, supernova
remnants, eclipsing binary stars, planetary nebulae, a tether satellite,
etc, etc, etc, etc, ...

 

the least interesting
page on this
web-site...
  a picture of the
Andromeda Nebula


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