SUNSPOT MONITORING – OCTOBER 6, 2021
Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, October 6, 2021. The sky was mostly clear with light to moderate breeze (fresh upper-level winds) which provided good transparency but average to poor seeing at the time these images were taken. Solar activity is at very low levels over the past 24 hours. AR2880 (Cso/beta) continues to […]
SUNSPOT MONITORING – OCTOBER 7, 2021
Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, October 7, 2021. The sky was mostly clear with light to moderate breeze which provided good transparency but average seeing at the time these images were taken. Solar activity is at very low levels over the past 24 hours. AR2880 (Axx/alpha) continues to gradually decay in structure while […]
SUNSPOT MONITORING – OCTOBER 8, 2021
Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, October 8, 2021. The sky was clear with moderate to fresh breeze which provided good transparency but average seeing at the time these images were taken. Solar activity is at very low levels over the past 24 hours. AR2880 has completely decayed in structure. On the other hand, […]
SUNSPOT MONITORING – OCTOBER 11, 2021
Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, October 11, 2021. The sky was clear with moderate breeze which provided good transparency but average seeing at the time these images were taken. Solar activity is at low levels over the past 24 hours. The lone visible large sunspot group AR2882 (Dho/beta) exhibited some penumbral decay of its […]
SUNSPOT MONITORING – OCTOBER 12, 2021
Here are today’s solar images taken from Al Sadeem Observatory, October 12, 2021. The sky was clear with light breeze (but strong upper-level winds) which provided good transparency but poor seeing at the time these images were taken. Solar activity is at very low levels over the past 24 hours. The lone visible large sunspot group AR2882 (Cho/beta) continues […]
ASTEROID FLORENCE CLOSE FLY-BY
On the evening of September 1, 2017, Al Sadeem Astronomy (ASA) Observatory observed the closest flyby of asteroid 3122 Florence. The asteroid was sighted and captured through the observatory’s 16” Meade LX850 Compound Telescope and a typical DSLR camera. At the time of capture, this relatively huge asteroid (about 4.5km wide) was seen travelling across […]
ASTEROID 2012 TC4 CLOSE FLY-BY
On October 11-12, 2017, a tiny near-Earth object (NEO) swept very close to Earth. Designated with the name 2012 TC4, this 15-30 meter wide asteroid (comparable to the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor) flew by nearEarth at around 11% the Earth-Moon distance. Specifically, it made its close encounter with Earth at about 44,000 kilometers above Antarctica at […]
ASTEROID 2010WC9 CLOSE FLY-BY
Al Sadeem Astronomy’s resident astronomer Aldrin Gabuya captured the path of the asteroid in spite of poor sky condition early in the morning of May 16, 2018, at 00:20 local time when it was about 17 above the horizon in the constellation of Scorpio. Below is the time-lapse animation of the asteroid fly-by in 10 sec […]
ASTEROID 4 VESTA
Vesta, a minor-planet designated as 4 Vesta – is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt with a diameter of 525 kilometres (326 mi). It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology. Vesta is the […]
COMET 21P – GIACOBINI/ZINNER
Comet 21P taken from Al Sadeem Observatory last September 11, 2018 using GSO RC 8” telescope mounted on Skywatcher EQ6 pro, and astro-modified Canon EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR camera. Stacked and processed in DeepSkyStacker and Pixinsight respectively. ABOUT THE COMET Comet 21P (Giacobini/Zinner) was first discovered by French astronomer Michel Giacobini at the Nice Observatory in France […]
