Planet Scenes April 2024
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April 24 A day after full Moon, I thought the early evening sky was suitable for a picture of Boötes and Corona Borealis that could serve as a finder chart for novice sky gazers to locate T Corona Borealis. |
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April 23 This shot of the Sun was acquired on the morning of Tuesday, April 23. This is about the most number of sunspots that I've seen; unfortunately, they're all rather small, so you don't get the impact of a giant spot. |
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April 22 Moon will be full tomorrow evening, so we were about 23 1/2 hours prior to full Moon at the time of this image. |
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April 13 Periodic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is still somewhat prominent in the evening sky, on this date and the previous evening being situated just below Jupiter and Uranus. It still doesn't show much with my 5 or 6 second images, so these are more just for the record as opposed to an attempt to show the comet in some detail. |
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April 8 Click on the first thumbnail to see an animated version of the eclipse sequence shown below; the second thumbnail of the uneclipsed Sun shows a series of close-up views through my old Nikon D40 with a 1,000 mm C-90 Maksutov-Cassegrain. My eclipse trip to New York |
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April 8 The long-awaited total solar eclipse of 2024 finally arrived and to most people's pleasant surprise, conditions were clear enough along the path that folks from Texas to New York were able to see totality. This shot captures the sequence we saw from a location near Plattsburgh, NY, where we enjoyed 3 minutes 32 seconds of totality. The diamond ring shot was a few seconds late, unfortunately. |
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April 4 Periodic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is making its once every 71 year passage through the inner solar system, offering us a moderately good apparition in the evening sky even though its orbital circumstances with respect to the Earth are not great this time. Here we see the comet in the early evening traversing the constellation Aries. Apparently, the comet underwent an outburst in the last day or two that has brightened it to about magnitude 3.8. |
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