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Fog at home but 10km driving into Langdorp, a clear sky.
Unfortunately no Nikon with me and thus trying to put the scene with my iPhone.

Total Lunar Eclipse - Occultation and reappearance of SAO97590

During the Total Lunar Eclipse of January 21,2019 the star SAO 97590 (HD67424) of magnitude 8.5 was eclipsed by the moon. The occultation started at UT4h42 and the star reappeared at UT5h36.

Lunar Eclipse - a compilation

I made a compilation of the Lunar Eclipse of January 21, 2019. I took 9 pictures to make the compilation. All pictures made with Nikon D7500 and TLAPO 80/480 f/6. Nikon RAW was converted to DNG in view of editing in CS4.

I'm happy and proud of this result as this is my first Total Lunar Eclipse I was able to photograph completely from beginning till the end.

Jupiter Venus Close Conjunction 20-23 January

Past week, Jupiter and Venus could be observed at the morning sky. The close conjuction and the way the planets move across the sky is seen easily on below two pictures.

Total Lunar Eclipse and SAO97590

Reappearance of SAO97590 during Total Lunar Eclipse. Raw format convertion to DNG and editing with CS4.

Lunar Eclipse - a compilation

A total of 212 pictures were taken of the Lunar Eclipse last monday, Jan 21, 2019. I made a selection of 7 pictures to make a small compilation. It's a first trial and I'm not 100% satisfied of the result... but it's time consuming so I will try later once more :)

Lecture by Sir Roger Penrose

Selfie with Sir Roger Penrose

The auditorium of the University of Maastricht was fully loaded for the lecture of Sir Roger Penrose on "Can we see Hawking Points in the CMB sky?"

A dedicated search of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Planck satellite data, driven by implications of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC), has revealed a remarkably strong signal (of confidence level greater than 99.98%), previously unobserved, of numerous anomalous highly energetic small regions in the CMB sky.

CCC proposes that our Big Bang was the (conformal) continuation of the remote future of a previous cosmic ‘aeon’ and that these anomalous regions would appear to be the result of individual points on CCC's crossover 3-surface from that previous aeon. They can be readily interpreted as the conformally compressed Hawking radiation from supermassive black holes in that aeon, but seem impossible to explain on the basis of the conventional inflationary picture of our very early universe.

My Mindmap of the Lecture