After weeks of Bavarian cloudy nights, I finally had a chance to photograph the comet 46P/Wirtanen. Icing on the cake: the sky cleared up right when the comet was passing the Pleiades!
Photographing comet 46P/Wirtanen (December 2018)

After weeks of Bavarian cloudy nights, I finally had a chance to photograph the comet 46P/Wirtanen. Icing on the cake: the sky cleared up right when the comet was passing the Pleiades!
Like many people, I have always been fascinated by space. And, like many people, it all started during childhood. Surprisingly, I didn’t really dream of becoming an astronaut: I simply wanted to be an astronomer, study the planets, the stars, the galaxies…