Pint of Science : Online on September 7 - 9, 2020

Pint of Science will be organised from September 7 till 9, 2020. This year I will have my drink at home and still be able to attend a science talk. Most of the lectures will be live via Youtube or Zoom.

The programme of Pint of Science in Germany is available with some interesting astronical lectures. This is what I found :

Monday September 7th: Solar System
- From Dust to Planets (18h)
- Finding and Studying Planets outside our Solar System (19h)

- Garbage dimp flying above our Heads (20h)

Tuesday September 8th : Ground Control to major Tom

- The Dark Side of the Universe (19h)

- Black Holes Bend Light onto Itself (20h)

Wednesday September 9th : Star Wars

- The Life and Times of our Milky Way (19h)

- Super-Earths and Biomarkers : How we look for extraterrestrial Life (20h)

- The hidden Universe (21h)

See details for Germany via this link. 

No data is yet available for Belgium, France and the Netherlands. 

Lecture by Govert Schilling: Live Streaming!

 

On September 24 Govert Schilling will be speaking at the Universtity of Maastricht. This time he will be talking about the debate astronomers have on the  Expansion Rate of the Universe. The lecture will be provided by a live streaming. Cool!

Telescope.org account 6 months extended

My student account for telescope.org and using the COAST telescope at Tenerife (Observatorio del Teide) is extended with 6 months. This is great news and creates opportunities to make pictures. 

Circumzenithal arc

This evening both sundogs and a very bright circumzenithal arc.

Halo around the Sun

Comet Neowise C/2020 F3 Fading

Comet Neowise C/2020 F3 is certainly fading. Magnitude of the comet is beyond 5.0. 

Bijschrift toevoegen

Saturn

Picture of Saturn yesterday evening with bad seeing. No really a sharp picture. Setting ZWO224MC on TAL200K f/8.5 with ADC and Barlowx2. Stacking with AutoStakkert! and final editing using CS4.