Diamond Ring

Diamond Ring

The diamond ring of the total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006 at in Side near Antalya in Turkey was spectacular.Towards the end of the eclipse the corona of the solar atmosphere still radiates along the upper left limb of the sun. A split second before end of the total...
Dinosaur’s Nightmare

Dinosaur’s Nightmare

The bright comet Hale-Bopp reveals all its beauty standing in the Milky Way during its perihelion in March 1997.If the dinosaurs had escaped the extinction from the asteroid impact 65 million years ago, they would certainly have panicked in the face of the comet...
The Black Sun

The Black Sun

The corona of the total solar eclipse of 29 March 2006 in Side near Antalya in Turkey appeared undisturbed by clouds and changed my life forever.Science explains so effortlessly why solar eclipses occur that it doesn’t seem to be anything special anymore.But...
Comet Hyakutake

Comet Hyakutake

Comet Hyakutake, the great comet of 1996, is shining in its full splendor in the Big Dipper constellation over Northern Germany. The comet was moving extremely fast and was only visible for about a week in February 1996. Because of the persistent bad weather during...
Falling Fire

Falling Fire

A bright shooting stars of the Leonid meteor shower is falling through the Orion constellation.Every 33 years, the Leonid’s are causing a cosmic firework with a meteor storm of more than 100.000 shooting stars per hour. The next occurrence will be in 2034. The...