Partial Solar Eclipse 2011 over Vienna's Hofburg

Vienna, 4.01.2011, Canon 40D, 200 mm F/36 lenses, 1/2000 and 0.6 sec at 100 ISO

Zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, whitish glow seen in the night sky which appears to extend up from the vicinity of the sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. Caused by sunlight scattered by space dust in the zodiacal cloud, it is so faint that either moonlight or light pollution renders it invisible. This image was taken at 5:25 a.m. Exposure time is 1 min at ISO 1600

Bright late Perseid meteor on 15 Aug 2010 at about two hours after Midnight (LST)

This is a combination of 21 two minute exposures, taken with Canon 40D digital camera mounted on Meade LX75 mount for tracking. The images were taken between 22:00 on 12 Aug and 05:00 on 13 Aug 2010 (LST).