The monthly meeting of the astronomy society "Helios" was organised today with different topics on the agenda.
On July 6th, Helios will join the yearly "Sun observation" event. More details will be shared shortly.
Also discussed are double stars and binary stars, Gaia telescope status, project SPECULOOS, a search for terrestrial planets transiting the nearest ultra-cool stars and project TRAPPIST, TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope. Next Belgium project will be called "CHOCOLATE" :)
As part of these projects we also talked Kepler 186f. Kepler-186f is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf Kepler 186A about 500 light years from the Earth. It is the first planet with a radius similar to Earth's to be discovered in the habitable zone of another star. It takes Kepler 186f 130days to orbit the red dwarf.
A final topic and with a lot of enthusiasm was the cosmic illusion revealed on which a supernova class IA was magnified by gravitational lensing. A massive object between us and the supernova bends light rays much as a glass lens can focus light. As more light rays are directed toward the observer than would be without the lens, the supernova appears magnified and this 30 times greater than normaly expected.
Pascal Hilkens Astro Home Page
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Solargraph gone.
One of my two solargraphs which was installed at the abbey of averbode is gone. This afternoon I wanted to check if my solargraph was in place and operational. Unfortunately and to my surprise the solargraph was gone.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
The New Weather Underground
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Sun and airplane
Bull's eye. When observing the sunspots and taking pictures from the sun today I accidently took a lucky shoot from the sun with in front a airplane.
A lot of sunspots visible today. The picture presented in the corner shows the sun taken by SDO showing the sunspots
Jupiter
Beautiful picture from Jupiter taken with my telescoop f:1500mm 12inch and barlow x2. Picture edited using CS4.
Full moon
Picture from the full moon taken in Belgium as the moon in other places at the world colored red as a result of the moon eclips. The picture shows centrally Tycho Crater with a diameter of 102km.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Helios Averbode
History of Helios Averbode now available on the VVS website. See this link to VVS website
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
My Personal Weather Station via App!
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