C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
Like in the last years, we also had a spectacular comet in 2024: Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was visible to the naked eye in October. Unfortunately, the visibility window was only short for us, but on October 15th we were able to spot the comet while driving home from vacation at the A23 car park close to the Kiel Channel.
Aurora in Hildesheim
During the last days the Kp index and the southwards component of the interplanetary magnetic field have been pretty strong, but unfortunately the weather wasn't clear. Today it was better in Hildesheim, and shortly after 23:00 I could observe significant activity from Moritzberg and it's Panoramaweg.
C/2022 E3 (ZTF)
In den letzten Tagen hat C/2022 E3 (ZTF), umgangssprachlich auch "Der Neandertaler-Komet" genannt, einiges an Schlagzeilen gemacht. Leider war bei uns in Hildesheim das Wetter durchgehend schlecht, so dass wir die Zeit der größten Helligkeit verpasst haben. Heute hatten wir Glück...