Selztal Observation Site

GAIA Alerts

Working on GAIA Photometric Alerts

Within the GAIA Science Alert project (GSA) teams a searching for transient events in the data of GAIA. 
A transient event is anything in the sky which appear, changes or disapears. There is a website available which publishs transient alerts in real time: http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/ 

Inside the Pelican

In the last year, I started to work together with a team @ University of Kent monitoring Young Stellar Object for outbursts.

And one more

Supernove SN2017eaw discovered through TNS (Transient Name Server) by Patrick Wiggins on May 14th, 2017. 

One more Supernova

On April 09th, 2017 a supernovae has bin discovered in galaxy M63 (NGC 5055) within constellation Canes Venatici. Brightness has been measured at mag 18, which is for a supernovae @ M63 distance not very bright, but....

Arp 273

Arp 273

Stimulated by pictures from other observers, I learned that within constellation Andromeda beside famous M31 and NGC 891 some more remarkable galaxies can be found: Arp 273 (or UGC 1810 & 13)