Pint of Science Festival

The Annual Pint of Science Festival will take place on May 20 - 22, 2019. Lectures will be given in 14 cities within Belgium. For other countries check the website - Pintofscience.

Specific for Belgium and astronomy related, these are the lectures :

20 May 2019

Brussel : The Dark Universe. 

Leuven : It’s a small world after all. 

Mechelen : Een blik in het eindeloze heelal. 

21 May 2019

Antwerpen : From Cold plasme to cold space. 

Brussel : Outer Space, What lies beyond. 

Leuven : Life, Death and afterlife of stars.

22 May 2019

Brussel : A tour of the microcosmos. 

Leuven : And there was light. 

Apollo Lezing in Bib Herselt 14 Mei

The Sky

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This evening this evening is on fire!

RE: Halo 22

You dramatically grow my interest in space... thanks for sharing this. So fascinating... Nature gifts the world with scenes of such beauty.

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Subject: Halo 22

Almost an entire day it was possible to see a very very bright halo around the Sun. In the morning it could be seen above Vigo, at noon time the halo was 360' above Redendela.
I never saw such a bright halo before and for so long.

Halo 22

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Almost an entire day it was possible to see a very very bright halo around the Sun. In the morning it could be seen above Vigo, at noon time the halo was 360' above Redendela.
I never saw such a bright halo before and for so long.

Halo Moon

Almost a full Halo around the Moon.

Moon, Saturn and Jupiter in the morning sky

Clear sky with -0,5°C and the Moon, Saturn and Jupiter in the morning sky.