The research work of the Taurus Hill Observatory will be presented in this year EPSC (European Planetary Science Congress) held in Madrid, Spain, 23.-28.9. This years poster title is “Transit Observations in Taurus Hill Observatory” and it is focused on Venus transit observations 2004 and 2012. There is also one chapter about the exoplanet observations. […]
Posts Categorized: Observations
New pictures from the Venus Transit 2012.
Part of the h-alpha pictures are now processed and uploaded to the Venus Transit 2012 gallery (text are in Finnish). Processing the h-alpha pictures is very challenging and time-consuming. THO “Venus Transit 2012 – Nordkapp Expedition” took about 700 pictures from the transit of Venus. We plan to upload the best pictures to our gallery, […]
Venus transit observed by the Taurus Hill Observatory “Nordkapp Expedition”-team.
Taurus Hill Observatory research team “Transit of Venus 2012 – Nordkapp Expedition” succeeded to photograph the Venus transit 5.-6.6.2012 in Northern Norway near the North Cape (Nordkapp) in small village called Russenes. Here are the preliminary results and first photos of the event. More photos later in this site. Observers and the expedition members: Jari […]
Sun photographed with Lunt LS60 h-alpha solar telescope.
THO research team rehearsed the photographing of the Sun with 2.4″ Lunt LS60 h-alpha solar telescope owned by the observatory. Team managed to photograph the Sun with different exposure times and different h-alpha settings on two days (17.5 and 19.5.). Below are some of the photographs that team managed to take during the rehearsals. Photos: […]
Venus Transit 2012 is near.
The Venus will transit over the Sun 6th of June. Transit starts 22:09 UTC and ends 04:49 UTC. Therefore if you want to see the whole transit in Europe, you have to travel as north as possible. Part of the he Taurus Hill Observatory research team will travel to Nordkapp that is the northest place […]
Gamma ray burst GRB 120326A optical after glow was photographed.
Gamma ray burst GRB 120326A optical after glow was photographed by Taurus Hill Observatory research team with Nerpio T17 (Spain) remote telescope. The observation has beenpublished in GCN 13119 circular (Hentunen V.P., Nissinen M., Salmi T.).
More auroras from Varkaus!
Harri Vilokki photographed auroras in Juonionlahti 7.3.2012. Harri’s photographs below. Esa Heikkinen also managed to photograph auroras in Varkaus. Esa reported auroras from two nights 8.3. and 17.3. Below are the Esa’s photos. 8.3.2012 17.3.2012
The northern lights are back!
There has been already a few nights when northern lights have illuminated Finnish skies. THO research team member Harri Haukka managed to take some photos about the northern lights in Kirkkonummi 7.3.2012. The sky was quite light polluted and also the almost full Moon lightened the sky. Photos: Harri Haukka. Harri Haukka and the […]
Taurus Hill Observatory main telescope out of order.
THO’s Paramount ME mount is now out of order for the time being. The main printed circuit board of the mount is broken and it takes some time to fix the board or order a new one. Observatory will use other telescopes for public star shows, but photographing isn’t possible at the moment. We will […]
Gamma ray burst GRB 111228A optical afterglow observed.
THO research team made observations with GRAS017 remote telescope about the gamma ray burst GRB 111228A optical afterglow. The brightness of the object was 18.7R magnitudes about 9,0 hours after the Swift -satellite discovered the GRB. This observation has been published in GCN 12754 circular. Observers: Markku Nissinen, Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Tuomo Salmi.
Weather at THO
All Sky Cameras
