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Season 2021-2022 has ended, once again the lack of astronomical darkness has come and deep sky imaging cant be done until autumn. This...

The Covid-19 pandemic has limited all public events worldwide. In Finland it seems to settle finally atleast to some degree and Ursa...

On this day three years ago, a green light was given to the building process of the Castle of clouds -observatory. To celebrate I...

Yet another beautiful late-spring season night! A small display of auroras danced in the north and also a Stable Auroral Red-arc (SAR)...

Todays AAPOD might be familiar to my readers. My photo of the Seahorse Nebula was selected as Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day today...

In the constellation of Gemini at a distance of 1500 light-years away lies an old planetary nebula called Abell 21, also known as the...

In late 2021 I shot the Wizard Nebula as one of my side-projects (seen here), but the data wasn't that great due to poor quality data....

*Edit 24.3.2022 - it was confirmed that this fireball most likely dropped a meteorite. The landing site is unfortunately in the lake...

A moderately strong geomagnetic storm sparked beautiful display of auroras at the observatory. Some lunar halos are visible too - what a...

This pair of galaxies lies in the constellation of Ursa Major, on the right is a grand design spiral galaxy Messier 81. This galaxy is...

On this night there was a small but bright aurora display on the northern horizon. Also a rare form of aurora, called Stable Auroral Red...

My observatory weather station captured something really intresting, a sudden spike in atmospheric pressure of 2 hPa. After a bit of...

This night offered alot of different phenomena - from insanely bright fireball in the begining of the night to small display of auroras...

Because everything runs very smoothly at my observatory I've had time to start building a portable setup that I can take easily with me...

Sh2-132, also nicknamed as the Lion nebula is 10,000 to 12,000 light-years away from Earth in the Perseus arm of our Galaxy. The...

In 1867 a french astronomer and assistant of Paris Observatory, Charles Wolf and the founder and director of the Bordeaux Observatory,...

When I visit my observatory I often check all sorts of bits and pieces to see if they are working - for example heaters that keep the...

This elongated dark nebula is called Barnard 150. It's sometimes referred as the Seahorse nebula for obvious reasons. An American...

This weekend I brought my scope back to the observatory for installation. We had big plans so I was really excited about it! I started...

I've had some problems with belt slipping with my focuser, so I decided to redo the parts that attach the focuser shaft to the motor. To...