Kategori: natthimmel
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We haven’t exactly been spoiled with cloudless nights this year, so when we finally had one of them, I had to make use of it. It’s incredibly difficult to find any good night sky shooting locations within a reasonable distance (which for me is a few minutes’ drive) and the one I tried today didn’t…
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It feels like it’s been cloudy for ages, so it really was a welcome sight to see the stars again. And now that there were no clouds to obscure the light, it was very evident that the days are indeed getting longer. It wasn’t all dark in the morning when I drove to work, and…
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It was supposed to be a good chance of aurora last night so I stayed up late, which in my case is midnight. With no sign on increased activity I had to go to bed, just couldn’t keep my eyes open any more. But even if I missed the aurora (or not, because looking at…
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I told you I would get the comet! The Pan-STARRS comet is higher up in the sky and moving north so now I can actually see it from my kitchen window. Since I have failed to find it so many times already, I sat in the kitchen with lights out and binoculars glued to my…
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It could be that I just have a strange definition of cool, but I think it’s cool that I can stand on my porch and look at Orion and Sirius! Early in the winter, Sirius wouldn’t be visible until around midnight but now at this time of the year they are so high up in the…
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I would normally not think that -20°C is any temperature for outdoors activities. But these clear cloudless nights are so rare that I felt it was a shame to waste it, especially now that there was a little bit of moonlight (37% crescent). I was determined to do some starry sky photography and had a…
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After all the excitement yesterday, I forgot that I had some night sky pictures I took on Friday when we had one of these rare cloudless skies and almost no wind. Too bad there was no snow on the trees, but it’s such a long time I’ve made any major effort with night sky photography…
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I was supposed to stay in Messlingen until Sunday, but already on Friday I had a feeling that something wasn’t right. I went skiing but my heart really wasn’t in it and it felt like I was doing everything in slow motion. I was totally uninspired by everything and didn’t even bother to look for…
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Lovely late winter’s day. I spent it all inside, going through my stuff to find out what I could throw away. I found that I had boxes and boxes and boxes of… boxes. Can’t believe how many empty cardboard boxes I’ve kept over the years! When I was done with my sorting, I had my…
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Photographing a moon crescent is to be much harder than photographing a full moon. There was an ever so thin crescent yesterday that I kept admiring from the bus window, only to see it disappear behind the clouds by the time we were in Loos. The crescent is still nice today and I admired it…