Starparty 2010: Sluit af met `n vuurstreep oor Kambro by Britstown

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"Kyk daar!" skree ek vir Louis en Pieter. 

Na die wind uit die Weste ons forseer het om om op te pak het ons so teen 10:00 by Auke se blyplek op die stoep gaan sit en gesels.  En drie koppies koffie later en amper Maandag is ons daar weg. 

 Dit is Maandagoggend 00:03 toe ek die meteoor net so links van die Groot Magellaanse wolk sien. 

"Ok! dink ek. Die hele naweek was daar baie van die goed.  Net nog een. Die verskil is hierdie een is helder en dit hou nie op nie. `n Lang geel -oranje vuurstreep met vonke stert agter  die kern aan. 

Ek skree vir die Pieter en Louis (Fourie)  om te kyk.  Ook hulle volg die vuurstreep so van tussen  die middel van die Magellaansew wolk en die Suiderkruis tot net verby die Suiderkruis. 

Was dit dalk `n stuk van `n satelliet wat ingekom het of kon dit `n meteoor wees? Met die horsisontale trajek het dit lank in die boonste lae van die atmosfeer vertoef.

(Ons het net koffie gedrink ;-)

Beslis `n hoogtepunt om die naweek mee af te sluit. Laat weet asseblief wie die vuurstreep gesien het.

Dankie aan almal vir `n wonderlike naweek by Kambro (Naby Britstown)

Ek is besig met die foto's en sal die skakel hier op die blog pos en ook vir Auke stuur.

Hier is solank `n klompie foto's wat Auke  gelaai het: www.psychohistorian.org

Groete

Hannes Pieterse

assabfn@gmail.com

Astrofoto's uit Bloemfontein

Herman Bonnet, `n astrofotograaf by ASSA Bloemfontein het hierdie Messier-voorwerpe met sy nuwe  Skywatcher equinox 120 afgeneem.

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 M16 (Eagle Nebula and also Star Queen Nebula in Serpens CaudaM16
05082010,06082010
Skywatcher EQ6 PRO
Skywatcher equinox 120 F7.5
Canon 400D
10x 120sec "lights"  ISO 800
11x 120sec  "lights" ISO 1600
6xdarks
8xflats
10xbias
Photoshop CS3
Deepskystacker
Noiseware
Ek het 'n rooi filter probeer vir 5 opnames om te kyk of ek die newel duideliker kan kry nadat die
eerste dag se opnames baie dof was.Ek het gelees op die "digital astro forum" dat die ouens dit gebruik.Lyk of
dit tog die newel duideliker gemaak het

M17 (Swan Nebula, also Omega Nebula in Sagittarius

M17
06082010
Skywatcher EQ6 pro
Skywatcher equinox 120 F7.5
Kamera: Canon 400D
ISO 1600
28X120sec "lightframes
6xdarks
8xflats
3xbias
Photoshop CS 3
Deepskystacker
Noiseware

M20, Trifid Nebula, in  Sagittarius

M20
05082010
Skywatcher EQ6 PRO
Skywatcher equinox 120 F7.5
Canon 400D
ISO 800
11x120sec "lights"
8xflats
6xdarks
5xbias
Photoshop CS3
Deepskystacker
Noiseware

M22 - Globular in Sagittarius (about 70 000 stars)M22
05082010
Skywatcher EQ6 PRO
Skywatcher equinox 120 F7.5
Canon 400D
ISO 800
10X 120 sec "lights"
6xdarks
8xflats
10xbias
Photoshop CS3
Deepskystacker
Noiseware

Katalogusse vir die Starparty by Britstown

Hier is `n paar katalogusse met van die voorwerpe wat sigbaar gaan wees by die Britstown Starparty.

Plek: Kambro Padstal by Britstown  
GPS S30°-25-00.3 E23°-33-56.1

Vir Saterdagaand 7 Augustus.

Dit is gerangskik van 19:00 tot so 05:30.

Sagteware gestel vir voorwerpe bo die horison. 

Voorberei vir 10" Dobsonian

Dit is in Pdf-formaat.

Regskliek en  "Save as".

- ASSA Top 100 ( 96 sigbaar  - Spesiaal vir Auke) Net reg vir `n Messier Marathon. Is dit nie die afskopplek om Suid-Afrika se eie Messier Marathon die lig te laat sien nie.

-  Burnham's Celestial Handbook deep sky list (1346 sigbaar)

- Herschel 400 (255)

- Messier (97)

- Caldwell (87)

- `n Paar komete. 

- Verkykerlys - Binoculars (7 X 50) 


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Voorberei met Skytools 3

2009 se "Starparty"

Hoe ver: Klik hier   N1 en N10 = 413km    of R64     N12   = 428km
(Bloefontein tot by Britstown)

Groete

Hannes Pieterse
(assabfn@gmail.com)

Sterrekundiges verheug oor deurbraak vir SA

 Photo Caption : Prof Albert van Jaarsveld, President of the NRF (left)
and Dr Ian Corbett, General Secretary of the IAU.

Die Burger - Media 24

Elsabé Brits

Kaapstad - Die wêreld se heel eerste ontwikkelingskantoor van die Internasionale Astronomiese Unie (IAU), wat aan Suid-Afrika toegeken is, kom Moederstad toe.

Dit sal by die Suid-Afrikaanse Sterrewag in Observatory in Kaapstad gehuisves word.
Dr. Ian Corbett, algemene sekretaris van die IAU, en dr. Albert van Jaarsveld, president van die Nasionale Navorsingstigting, het gister die ooreenkoms in Pretoria onderteken.

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South Africa wins the bid to host the prestigious international Office for Astronomy Development

Category: SAAO Press Releases

By: Kevin Govender & Patricia Whitelock

South Africa has been selected by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to host the prestigious IAU Office for Astronomy Development (OAD). The awarding of the bid to South Africa by the 88th meeting of the IAU, on Thursday, 13 May 2010 in Baltimore, USA, follows a process where 20 proposals were submitted by different countries and were evaluated by the IAU over several months.

Read more...
 

Abrams Planetarium - Night Sky Notes

Into the Looking Glass

Into the Looking Glass   (Visit the site)

Recently, technicians at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., completed a series of cryogenic tests on six James Webb Space Telescope beryllium mirror segments at the center's X-ray & Cryogenic Facility. During testing, the mirrors were subjected to extreme temperatures dipping to -415 degrees Fahrenheit, permitting engineers to measure in extreme detail how the shape of the mirror changes as it cools.

The Webb telescope has 18 mirrors, each of which will be tested twice in the Center's X-ray & Cryogenic Facility to ensure that the mirror will maintain its shape in a space environment -- once with bare polished beryllium and then again after a thin coating of gold is applied.

The cryogenic test gauges how each mirror changes temperature and shape over a range of operational temperatures in space. This helps predict how well the telescope will image infrared sources.

The mirrors are designed to stay cold to allow scientists to observe the infrared light they reflect using a telescope and instruments optimized to detect this light. Warm objects give off infrared light, or heat. If the Webb telescope mirror is too warm, the faint infrared light from distant galaxies may be lost in the infrared glow of the mirror itself. Thus, the Webb telescope's mirrors need to operate in a deep cold or cryogenic state, at around -379 degree Fahrenheit.

Image Credit: NASA

"On August 27th Mars will look as large as the full moon."

And finally, "NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN."
Those are snippets from a widely-circulated email. Only the first sentence is true. The Red Planet is about to be spectacular. The rest is a hoax.

Here are the facts: Earth and Mars are converging for a close encounter this year on October 30th at 0319 Universal Time. Distance: 69 million kilometers. To the unaided eye, Mars will look like a bright red star, a pinprick of light, certainly not as wide as the full Moon.

Disappointed? Don't be. If Mars did come close enough to rival the Moon, its gravity would alter Earth's orbit and raise terrible tides.

Sixty-nine million km is good. At that distance, Mars shines brighter than anything else in the sky except the Sun, the Moon and Venus. The visual magnitude of Mars on Oct. 30, 2005, will be -2.3. Even inattentive sky watchers will notice it, rising at sundown and soaring overhead at midnight.

You might remember another encounter with Mars, about two years ago, on August 27, 2003. That was the closest in recorded history, by a whisker, and millions of people watched as the distance between Mars and Earth shrunk to 56 million km. This October's encounter, at 69 million km, is similar. To casual observers, Mars will seem about as bright and beautiful in 2005 as it was in 2003.

Although closest approach is still months away, Mars is already conspicuous in the early morning. Before the sun comes up, it's the brightest object in the eastern sky, really eye-catching. If you have a telescope, even a small one, point it at Mars. You can see the bright icy South Polar Cap and strange dark markings on the planet's surface.

One day people will walk among those dark markings, exploring and prospecting, possibly mining ice from the polar caps to supply their settlements. It's a key goal of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration: to return to the Moon, to visit Mars and to go beyond.

Every day the view improves. Mars is coming–and that's no hoax.
Original Source: NASA News Release

Tyd om jou Lidmaatskap te hernu of om aan te sluit.

 Hernu jou lidmaatskap by die Bloemfontein Sterrekundevereniging
of sluit aan.

Besoek die webtuiste. www.assabfn.co.za

Dis weer tyd om jou lidmaatskap by die Sterrekunde vereniging van Suid-Afrika te hernu of om aan te sluit .

Besoek hulle webblad  om die aansoekvorm af te laai en ook om meer te wete te kom van die vereniging.

Nuwe verbeterde : "Star Gazer’s Deep Space Atlas, Outdoor Viewing" (Herhaling)

Op 1 Junie 2009 het ek die eerste keer oor die "Star Gazer’s Deep Space Atlas, Outdoor Viewing" geskryf. Nou is die die nuwe verbeterde weergawe hier.  Dit is nou beskikbaar. Bestel dit gerus.

Hoekom die opgewondnheid.

• Dit is vir die Suidelike halfrond saamgestel. 
• Dit is gemaak om buite by jou teleskoop of verkyker gebruik te word
• Blaaie is doubestand. Wonderlik vir die vroegoggende buite.
• Bladsyagtergrond is swart met wit teks en voorwerpe daarop.
• Konstellasies in die naghemel word maklik opgespoor.
• So ook die voorwerpe in die naghemel.
• Daar is `n “Sky Tour” om jou te help om die boek te gebruik.
• Kwaliteit drukwerk 
• Lees weer 1 Junie se blog in die argief.
• Baie ekstra inligting oor sterrekunde berskikbaar.
•  Daar is geen sokkerstatistiek in nie. Niks van FIFA nie.
  
  Meer inligting en voorbeeldbladsye is hier beskikbaar:
  
  1& 3 is dieselfde. Bestelinligting is by 1 beskikbaar.
  2 & 3 is dieselfde voorbeeldbladsye
  

1. Voorbeeldbladsye en kontakinligting in Powerpoint. Klik hier (2M)
   
2. Voorbeeldbladsye en kontakinligting in PDF-formaat . Klik hier  (2M)
   
3. Inligting op webblad. Klik hier
   
4. Opsommende inligting en hoe om die atlas te bestel:  Klik hier

Web: www.deepspaceatlas.com

 
To order a copy, please contact:

orders@deepspaceatlas.com

 For more info contact Wayne:

info@deepspaceatlas.com

 Cell:  072 465 7739.

Title: Star Gazers Deep Space Atlas, Outdoor viewing.

Author: Wayne Mitchell.

ISBN: 978-0-620-41105-9.

Edition: Second.  Published: April 2010.

Size: A5 (210x150 mm)

Pages: 270. Laminated covers and varnished inner pages.

Cost: R399. Registered postage (including tracking number) R65.      

Groete

Hannes Pieterse
ASSABFN

Atlas release date: Mid June 2010

Atlas release date: Mid June 2010

KAROO STARPARTY 2010 (Herhaling)

 

Dit het klein begin in 2009. 

Skud jou reg vir Suid Afrika se eie Karoo "starparty" in 2010.
Naas ScopeX gaan hierdie die geleentheid wees om elke jaar by te woon.
Kom pluk `n ster in die Karoo!

Plek: Kambro Padstal by Britstown   GPS S30°-25-00.3 E23°-33-56.1

Datum: 6 - 9 Augustus 2010

Hoe ver: Klik hier   N1 en N10 = 413km    of R64     N12   = 428km
(Bloefontein tot by Britstown)

• 2009 se "Starparty"
  
• Meer inligting oor die 2010 Karoo "Starparty"