tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65102729188001946302024-03-14T01:00:30.322+00:00My SkyIn loving memory of Joao Kalahary.João Cruz a.k.a. xumaxer/xumiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06014988604746875211noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510272918800194630.post-71718610367410964172013-11-21T18:33:00.002+00:002013-11-21T18:36:26.838+00:00C/2012 S1 ISON 20131118@06:10 am<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The sky was very nice except for clouds right were ISON would come up :-(</div>
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This time my cousin Luís Sérgio joined me yet again in this adventure, bringing along his Canon 1000D.<br />
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Once again I was asked to join a Solar Day event for 7th graders, at a local school.</div>
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To provide further student enrollment, school have different "clubs" as they call it, in which kids can learn a bit more, out of classroom envirnoment. The Astronomy Club is being led by a recently hired physics teacher (Madalena) and she is willing to enhance its activity, taking good use of the equipment they already have.</div>
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Together with another physics tecaher (Bruno), students were able to take their fisrt Sun gaze through my LS60 and a school's front filtered Orion 4" refractor with a beautiful yellowish sun and great sunspots.</div>
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What a nice afternoon, back in school :-)</div>
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July 5th was the 2nd hottest day this year: 41ºC (105.8ºF) so I only went out at 19:00UT...<br />
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The opening of the Ist Astrophotography Contest exhibition, held at Parque Biológico de Gaia, Gaia, Portugal, on the 1st of June at 21h30.</div>
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3 Planets by J. Cruz</div>
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When the award ceremony ended, we were invited by the organization to join the "Firefly Night" walk in the Park that was taking place. It proved to be a very entertaining and enjoyable evening, revisiting those little bugs we could easily see back then, when the city lights were not so many as today...</div>
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Winning picture of Solar System category for the 1st Edition of the "Observatorio Astronómico do Parque Biológico de Gaia" (Gaia's Biological Park Astronomic Observatory) Astrophotograhy Nacional Contest. This institution is located in Gaia, Portugal, just on the opposite bank of Oporto's Douro river.</div>
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Televue barlows: Mars (3x) and 2x Powermate (Jupiter & Saturn)</div>
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Comet C/2011 L4.<br />
C11 f/10 and DMK41.<br />
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I was finally able to spot it and captured it with an Iphone & C11 f/10 and 25mm EP projection.<br />
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