Sunday, March 1, 2020

Weather Summary February 2020


February 2020: a wet, windy and warm february.
February was a very wet month with 124l/m2 rain. Two storms passed resulting in a total wind run of 3603km. This feb month, a couple of local records are broken:  longest wet periode(8 days), highest monthly rain (124mm) and highest wind gust (46.8km/h).


Saturday, February 29, 2020

M17 Swan Nebula

Sand storm in Tenerife is gone and telescopes are working again. My requests are completed and one of them is the Swan or Omega nebula, Messier M17. Picture taken with COAST C14 f/11 with exposure of 180s. The PNG picture was edited using CS4.


Sunday, February 23, 2020

Lecture The Relativistic Quantum World @ Maastricht University

Starting on March 4th, Maastricht University will be providing a lecture series on the relativistic quantum world. In total 10 lectures during 5 evenings will be given and providing insight of the quantum world.

For more details see here. 



Sterrenkijkdagen 2020 : Helios @ Langdorp


De nationale sterrenkijkdag zal plaatsvinden op vrijdag 28 en zaterdag 29 februari. Sterrenvereniging Helios zal aanwezig zijn op zaterdag 29 februari in Langdorp (aan de Demer achter het Wolf café). Vanaf 19h00 zal bij helder weer diverse kijkers opgesteld worden om te kijken naar de maan en andere moois. Vergeet je smartphone niet mee te brengen zodat je zelf een unieke foto van de maan kunt maken.

Zie ook : VVS website
Zie ook : Uit in Vlaanderen

SterrenkundigJaaboek 2020 Royal Observatory of Belgium (PDF)


Het jaarboek 2020 van de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van Belgie is beschikbaar. Dit Jaarboek heeft tot doel de nodige inlichtingen te verstrekken met aanduidingen voor wie belang stelt in de waarneming van de sterrenkundige verschijnselen. Het boek is te koop of te downloaden in PDF formaat

Zie link naar het jaarboek

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Coronal Mass Ejection and Earth's magnetic fields


Illustration of a CME from the Sun’s surface in the direction of Earth. The blue waves around the Earth’s poles represent it's magnetic field lines. The CME and it's magnetic cloud of plasma can extend to 45 million km wide by the time they reach Earth. These CME storms can disrupt communications and navigational equipment, damage satellites, and even cause electrical blackouts; and this is the science of Space Weather.

Friday, February 21, 2020

OpenLearn Astronomy with an online telescope



My second course on OpenLearn from the The Open University : Astronomy with an online telescope. I was able to complete the course succesfully and getting my first badge.