RE: Meteorite Reliegos

Ohh, Woow. A meteorite of 17 kg. That was quite heavy. Have fun on the way. Enjoy.

 

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Subject: Meteorite Reliegos

 

On the Camino de Santiago, 175km west from Burgos, in a little village, Reliegos, i found this mark of a fallen meteorite. Translation will follow later.

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Meteorite Reliegos

On the Camino de Santiago, 175km west from Burgos, in a little village, Reliegos, i found this mark of a fallen meteorite. Translation will follow later.

Start of Astronomical Spring

Today at 17h15 local time, it's the start of the Astronomical Spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

Nightscape Moon Venus Mercury Alignment

This evening, just after sunset, the Moon, Venus and Mercury arise low above the Western horizon. Venus still bright but Mercury (north west of Venus) is getting fainter day by day now. Picture taken using Nikon D7500 with limited editing using CS4.

Failed Solargraph Analemma

Bad news! My Solargraph set up for capturing the annual Analemma onfurtunately failed. Last week, due to snow, my homemade shield came loose from the timemechanism. As a result, the capturing of the sun at the same moment was stopped and could not be calibrated any more.

What are the learnings :

1) my home made system seems to work, capturing the beginning of the analemma
2) positioning to the south could be better
3) somehow a piece of the tape came loose on came on the photopaper (white rectavle)
4) set up withstand the storm in January and heavy rainfall without getting wet
5) time module seems to be accurate enough the keep tracking the sun

Based on this learning, I need to figure out how the secure better the timemechanism with the shield. Even the fact I'm dissapointed, I will retry but with a slightly different set up.

Basisbegrippen Nightscape Astrofotografie

Wil je meer weten en je basiskennis aanscherpen rond Nightscape Astrofotografie.
Download dan volgende presentatie "Basisbegrippen Nightscape Astrofotografie"

My Picture on the Weather Forecast

This morning I took a landscape picture which was send to #vrtweer. At noon time my picture was part of the Weather Forecast on TV by Frank Deboosere :)

 

Nightscape with Venus & Mercury Alignment

This evening, both planets Venus and Mercury were visible low above the Western horizon. Around 19h15m local time clouds disappeard and Mercury showed up north of bright Venus.

Nightscape Startrail

Startrail above Maagdentoren in Zichem. In total 143 pictures taken, each 25s. and stacked using Startrails v2.3. Limited editing using CS4.

Nightscape Moon Jupiter

Beautiful view of the Moon and Jupiter (west of the Moon) this morning.

VIP PASS, I'm on the Mission to Touch the Sun

My name is on the hottest ticket, a ticket on the Mission to Touch the Sun, a ticket with my name on a chip aboard the Parker Solar Probe. 

The NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard NASA’s historic Parker Solar Probe mission launching in summer 2018. The mission will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions — and your name will go along for the ride.

Submissions will be accepted until April 27, 2018. Learn more and add your name to the mission here: http://go.nasa.gov/HotTicket

Moon & Jupiter in the Morning Sky

This morning and also tomorrow morning, the Moon and Jupiter can be seen at the Southern horizon. The Moon is currently 71% illuminated.

Earliest stars born 180 million years after the Universe began.

After 12 years of experimental effort, a team of scientists, led by Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration astronomer Judd Bowman, has detected indications of the earliest stars in the universe. Using radio signals, the detection provides the first evidence for the oldest ancestors in our cosmic family tree, born a mere 180 million years after the universe began.

An observation profile centred around 78Mhz in the sky-averaged spectrum was discovered. “What’s happening in this period is that some of the radiation from the very first stars is starting to allow hydrogen to be seen," said Rogers. "It’s causing hydrogen to start absorbing the background radiation, so you start seeing it in silhouette, at particular radio frequencies. This is the first real signal that stars are starting to form, and starting to affect the medium around them.”

For more information here.

SIDC Series on Lectures on Solar Physics Basics

Lectures 8 & 9 are now available on the Youtube channel from the Royal Observatory of Belgium. See this link here.

The lectures are part of the SIDC series on Solar Physics Basics which I really recommend listening too.

Govert Schilling's Lecture on the Mysterious Universe

Selfie with Govert Schilling

On the evening of March 1, I attended the lecture of The Mysterious Universe by the well know Dutch science journalist Govert Schilling. This happening was organized as part of the Studium Generale lectures at the University of Maastricht.

In the first part a brief overview was given on where are we located (Space), when did this al start (Time) and explaining the relation between our location and time (Space-Time relation). 

The second part covered 9 unsolved mysteries :

     1) How did our Moon originate?

     2) Where is Planet 9?

     3) How unique is Life? 

     4) What are Cosmic Radio Bursts?

     5) What's happening inside a Black Hole?

     6) How did the Baby Universe look like?

     7) What is Dark Matter?

     8) What is Dark Energy?

     9) How unique is our Universe?

Time was flying by and enjoyed listening to the enthusiastic Govert Schilling. 

Weather Summary Feb 2018

February 2018 was a cold month with an average temperature of 0.5°C and 23 air frost days. The minimum temperature was -9.2°C and wind chill of -15°C.

 

Lectures by Studium Generale @ Maastricht University

Lecture on Multiverse by Prof. Dr. J. Heise on April 26.

Lecture on particle physics by Prof. Dr. Eric Laenen and Prof. Dr. Marcel Merk