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I spend this website many hours each week to share my knowledge and experience from the areas of Astronomy, Cars and Travels. Most pages are written in English that is not my own native language, so do not judge me too hard if you find grammatical errors and more.

Highlights!

(these pages could be a mix of Swedish and English)

Contents:

• NewsMostly highlights on Astrofriend's homepage, see also left column Latest News
• New linksInteresting information
• Must do stuffWhat makes your life valuable
• Speech nature science, Föredrag naturvetenskap(most speeches in Swedish)

News:

Here I have collected news I found interesting.

Technology, Astronomy, Cars, Travels etc.

12 november, 2019 Resor till sjöss

Min fars äventyr som sjöman under åren 1937 till 1945:

Uppdateringar om fartygen som förliste, B O Börjesson, Canton och Hermod.

• Vem har inte drömt om att göra en jorden runt resa någon gång i sitt liv. Min pappa Evert gjorde det redan innan han var 20 år fyllda. Han mönstrade på handelsfartyg och hamnade ända borta i Kina och andra länder i Asien. Det här skedde delvis under Andra Världskriget, det var många fartyg som gick under från minor och torpeder, även svenska fartyg. Tre av fartygen han var på förliste pga detta, dock något efter att han mönstrat av. Trevligt nog har jag en hel del bilder till pappas alla berättelser om de här 7 åren till sjöss. Denna spännande historia kan ni följa här:

  travel/world/evert-at-sea-1937-1945/ 01-evert-at-sea-start-sv.html
  (My father's adventures at sea, 1937 - 1945)

Other history related:

November 11, 2019 Astronomy

• Mercury transit, direct from La Palma ! Youtube

  Link from Nippe.

  And one more.

Other astronomy pages:

November 10, 2019 Home Theatre

• It's dark and winter now. I can't use my summer car and most days are cloudy so can't do my astronomy hobby either. What to do ? Restart my old hobby Home Theatre, of course !

  sound-image/ home-theatre-resurrection/ home-theatre-resurrection.html
  (Home Theatre resurrection, 2019)

  Update:
  More details about HTPC setup.

Other Sound and Image:

November 9, 2019 Astronomy / equipment

• Big news ! Canon has released a mirrorless astro modified camera, Canon EOS Ra. Full frame and 30 Mpixel:

  https://www.skyandtelescope.com/ astronomy-equipment/ first-look-canons-eos-ra-mirrorless-camera/
  (First look Canons EOS Ra mirrorless camera, Sky and Telescope)

Other astronomy links:

November 8, 2019 Astronomy / seminar

• Seminars "The ALMA Fornax Cluster Survey" by Nikki Zabel.

  How does the galaxy cluster environment affect molecular gas and star formation? by Nikki Zabel, 2019
  (Institution of Astronomy, Stockholm's University)

Other speech, seminar and articles:

October 6, 2019 Astronomy: Tutorial

• An off-axis adapter could be tricky to setup correctly first time. Here is a tutorial I have done to help:

  astronomy/ tutorials/ tutorial-setup-off-axis-adapter/ 01-tutorial-setup-off-axis-adapter.html
  (Setup off-axis adapter)

Other astronomy projects:

25 oktober, 2019 Astronomi

• Nu har du chansen att döpa en exoplanet, alltså en planet runt en annan stjärna, dessutom en svensk:

  https://rymdaret.se/ exoplanet/
  (Döp Sveriges Exoplanet, Rymdåret 2019)

Andra observationsplatser:

October 22, 2019 Photography

• Looking out through the window, the sunshine comes and goes. Took a break and go out with the camera to catch some nice colors in the fall:

  photography/ seasons/ fall-in-hagsatra-2019/ fall-in-hagsatra-2019.html
  (Fall in Hagsätra, 2019)

Other Photography:

October 21, 2019 Car racing

• Once again we visited Mantorp race track and Team 1 racing:

  vehicles/ mantorp-race-track-2019/ mantorp-park-race-track-2019.html
  (Mantorp race track, 2019)

Other ships, cars and aircrafts:

October 18, 2019 Astronomy / seminar

• Seminars "Mapping Large-Scale Structure Evolution over cosmic times" by Marta Silva.

  Mapping Large-Scale Structure Evolution over cosmic times by Marta Silva, 2019
  (Institution of Astronomy, Stockholm's University)

Other speech, seminar and articles:

October 15, 2019 Astronomy, 3D printer

• It's time for me to adapt to new technology, 3D printing:

  3d-printing/ 3d-printer-setup/ 01-3d-printer-setup.html
  (3D Printer, assembling and setup)

Update:
Printer calibration
Update 3D printer software

Other astronomy projects:

October 11, 2019 Astrofriend's homepage

• My home page content expand and it could maybe be difficult to find what you looking for. Because of that I have implemented a search function on my home page Astrofriend. You can now search my home page after the subject you want to find.
  
  You find it in the list above to the right and it look like this:

The result is presented in an overlay window. I will change it later when I understand the function better.

October 1 30, 2019 Astronomy

• World’s largest optical lens shipped to SLAC:

  https://www.llnl.gov/ news/ worlds-largest-optical-lens-shipped-slac
  (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

September 30, 2019 Astronomy

• My EQ6 mount is good but there are some weak point in the construction. One of them is the Altitude polar align adjustment. When living at 60 degree latitude as I do it doesn't work very well. Here I starting a study of what others have done and what equipment there are to buy to solve this problem:

  astronomy/ projects/ project-eq6-wedge-rebuilding/ 01-eq6-wedge-rebuilding.html
  (EQ6 wedge rebuilding)

Other astronomy projects:

September 28, 2019 Astronomy

• With no dark nights during the summer it's time to do some work on the equipment. My old EQ6 mount needs some, I disassembling the mount and rebuilt it partly:

  astronomy/ projects/ project-eq6-dismantling-rebuilding/ 01-eq6-dismantling-rebuilding.html
  (EQ6 mount rebuilt)

Other astronomy projects:

September 26, 2019 Cars

• Oxhagen Gård, this is a new place for me. The last Wednesday during the summer months there are car meetings here:

  vehicles/ oxhagen-gard-2019/ oxhagen-gard-2019.html
  (Oxhagen Gård, 2019)

Other ships, cars and aircrafts:

September 21, 2019 Astronomy / History

• Walking among meteorites, one day at Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Nature museum) i Stockholm:

  astronomy/ astronomy-photo/ meteorites/ naturhistoriska-riksmuseet-2019/ meteorites-naturhistoriska-riksmuseet-2019.html
  (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, 2019)

Other Astronomy Photographys:

September 13, 2019 Astronomy and Travel

• Mariestad have a meeting every year, a Star Party. That something we like and Mariestad isn't too far away for us either. After the star party we visited some other places too:

  travel/ sweden/ mariestad-star-party-2019/ 01-mariestad-star-party-and-others-2019.html
  (Mariestad Star Party 2019)

Other travels in Sweden:

September 11 2019 Cars

• A visit at my cousin Håkan's garage:

  vehicles/ hakans-garage-2019/ hakans-garage-2019.html
  (Håkan's garage, 2019)

Other ships, cars and aircrafts:

September 5, 2019 Astronomy, vignetting of lenses

• I have collected my master flats and examine the vignetting of the lenses and telescopes I use or used:

  astronomy/ projects/ project-different-lenses-vignetting/project-different-lenses-vignetting.html
  (Vignetting of lenses and telescope)

Other astronomy projects:

September 1, 2019 Astronomy, photography

• Our own Star Party and first light with Canon 300 mm f/4:

  astronomy/ astronomy-photo/ galaxies/ m31/ m31-galaxy.html
  (M31, first light Canon 300 mm f/4)

Other galaxies:

August 16, 2019 Travels / Sweden

• Southern of Sweden is very beautiful. I have been there before but wanted to visit it again. We took my car for a 7 days travel through Blekinge, Skåne and Småland:

  travel/ sweden/ blekinge-skane-smaland-2019/ 01-stockholm-stegeborg-kristianopel-2019.html
  (By car in Blekinge, Skåne and Småland, 2019)

Other travels in Sweden:

July 27, 2019 Cars

• A visit at the junkyard in Osby:

  vehicles/ osby-scrapped-cars-2019/ osby-scrapped-cars-2019.html
  (Osby USA bildelar, 2019)

Other ships, cars and aircrafts:

18 juli, 2019 Historia, Slussen

• Återigen ett besök till Nya Slussen för att se hur långt arbeted kommit idag:

  history/ sverige stockholm slussen/ sverige stockholm slussen 20190302.html
  (Nya Slussen byggs i Stockholm, 2019)

Other history related:

July 14, 2019 Travels / Sweden

• One place I always have found beautiful in books is Norrköping and its river Motala Ström. We have travel by car through Norrköping many times but never stopped at the old town center. This day my girlfriend had to visit the archive of Norrköping in her research and I follow to walk in the old city of Norrköping and take some photos:

  travel/ sweden/ motala-strom-norrkoping-2019/ motala-strom-norrkoping-2019.html
  (Walking along Motala Ström in old town of Norrköping, 2019)

Other travels in Sweden:

July 9, 2019 Ships

• A visit on the Swedish icebreaker Atle:

  vehicles/ icebreaker-atle-2019/ icebreaker-atle-frihamnen-2019.html
  (Icebreaker Atle in Frihamnen 2019)

Other ships, cars and aircrafts:

July 3, 2019 Travel, walks with old and new photos

• One old idea I have is to take old photos and then take new ones from the same place and compare. I have started with the island Riddarholmen in Stockholm. The old photography is from the 19th century. Much more complicated then I first thought, it will take long time, here is the beginning of the work:

  travel/ sweden/ old-and-new-photographs/ introduction-old-and-new-photographs.html
  (Old and new photography from Stockholm)

Other things about Swedish history:

June 13, 2019 Travel / cruising

• A cruise with the classic ship M/S Birger Jarl:

  travel/ sweden/ ms-birger-jarl-stockholm-archipelago/ ms-briger-jarl-2004.html
  (Crusing with M/S Briger Jarl in Stockholm's archipelago, 2004)

Other travels in Sweden:

June 13, 2019 Travel / cruising

• As a gift on my birthday I got a cruise with the schooner Vega from my girlfriend:

  travel/ sweden/ schooner-vega-2013/ schooner-vega-2013.html
  (The schooner Vega in Stockholm, 2013)

Other travels in Sweden:

June 12, 2019 Travel / Walk

• A walk along Stockholm city's Southern harbors:

  travel/ sweden/ stockholm-harbors/ stockholm-harbor-hammarby-2019.html
  (Stockholm City's harbors, now three walks included)

Other travels / Walks in Stockholm:

June 7, 2019 Boats / Monalisa

• Big news! The anchor that belonged to Monalisa:

  vehicles/ everts-cruiser-monalisa/ everts-cruiser-monalisa-03.html
  (Photos of the anchor)

Other ships and boats:

May 28, 2019 Astronomy

• Sweden Solar System.
  2019 version 2 of Jupiter was installed at Arlanda airport. We were invited to participate and here is a short report from that event.

  astronomy/ astronomy-articles/ sweden-solar-system-jupiter-2019/ sweden-solar-system-jupiter.html
  (Sweden Solar System, Jupiter installation 2019)

Other speech, seminar and articles:

May 19, 2019 Sound / Image

• Biograf (Cinema) Sländan Museum:

  sound-image/ cinema-slandan-museum/ cinema-slandan-museum.html
  (Biograf Sländan Museum)
• We had a visit to a camera flee market today, we was a bit early and found this when we waiting, a cinema machine museum.

Other things about sound and cinema:

May 15, 2019 Travel

• A half year ago we went to Crete in Greece and like a lot, now we go back to Greece but to the island Rhodes, read more:

  travel/ europe/ travel-europe-rhodes/ 01-greece-rhodes.html
  (One week at Rhodes, island of Greece, April 2019, all days online)

Other travels in Europe:

April 14, 2019 Astronomy

• At our last vacation at Rhodes we visited the observatory Astronomy Cafe in Faliraki. This is a place where you can stay and rent astronomy equipment.

  Read more:

  astronomy/ observatory-sites/ rhodes-faliraki-astronomy-cafe/ rhodes-faliraki-astronomy-cafe.html
  (A visit to the Astronomy Cafe observatory in Rhodes, April 2019)

Other observatory sites:

27 januari, 2019

Nya kartor över fornlämningar: Fornhistoria

• Kartor för fornfynd, det är för dig som gillar att vara ute i naturen och leta efter vår spännande historia.

• Här finner du de nya kartorna:

  history/ sverige-fornlamningar-kartor/ fornlamningar-kartor-sv.html
  (Fornlämningskartor, Sverige)

Other history related in Sweden:

All other news: News.

New links:

Here I have collected new links that I found interesting.

Technology, Astronomy, Cars, Travels etc.

September 29, 2019 Astronomy

• New links about telescope mounts:

  links/ links-astronomy-mount.html
  (Information about mounts)

DIY and tweaks.

August 20, 2019 Physics

• 3D printing links:

  links/ links-astronomy-3d-printing.html
  (3D printing info files)

3D printing can be useful in astronomy, I have collected some links with info and 3D drawings.

August 20, 2019 Physics

• Funny Physics related to Gravity:

  links/ links-others.html #funny-physhics-gravity
  (Funny Physics, link collection from Youtube)

I think you will find it interesting too (but don't believe everything).

April 18, 2019 Travel and Astronomy

Astro-tourism, a growing tourist travel area.

• Astro Tourism:

  links/ links-astronomy-astrotourism.html
  (Astro Tourism, link collection)

I have primarily chosen places that I can reach from Sweden within 6 hours by air. Most of them are in Spain.

You find above links later on the link page:

• Links

Must do stuff:

Technology, Astronomy, Cars, Travels etc.

(look carefully that it has not been canceled or has a changed date)

November 11, 2019 Astronomy

Mercury transit 2019:

• https://www.planetary.org/ blogs/ bruce-betts/ how-to-see-the-2019-mercury-transit.html
  (Mercury ytansit 2019, Planetary Socity)
• https://www.popularastronomi.se/ 2019/ 10/ se-merkurius-korsa-solen-den-11-november-2019/
  (Merkurius transit 2019, Populär astronomi)

It happens only 6 times per hundred years !

Of course we got clouds, but Nippe have provided me a link with direct broad cast from La Pamla:

• https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v= 0kr-8ESM-8M
  (Mercury Transit - SST, La Palma)

October, 2019 Astronomy

• Comet C/2018 W2 Africano visit us:

  http://www.aerith.net/ comet/ catalog/ 2018W2/ 2018W2.html
  (C/2018 W2 Africano, Seiichi Yoshida)

• Look at your local star map where it is and its orbit, you can use CdC or Skychart:

  CdC or Skychart (Free to download)

It could be as bright as magnitude +8, you need a big binocular to see it or a camera.

Föredrag: (Stockholm, Sverige)

This is only for you who live in Stockholm, Sweden or want to travel and make a visit here.

De flesta av de här föredragen hålls i Stockholm. Vanligtvis är de på svenska men ibland på engelska. Läs noga på deras hemsida så att det inte blivit inställt eller flyttat.

Området är naturvetenskap.

31 January to 1 February, 2020

European Astro Fest:

• https://european astrofest.com/
  (Astro Fest 2020)

11 maj - 27 oktober, 2019 Utställning (OBS ! Sommaruppehåll !)

För er som gillar gamla båtar.
På Lidingö Museum kommer under sommaren 2019 pågå en utställning om Boghammar Marin. Mina minnen från min pappas berättelser är att han hade hört från den tidigare ägaren av hans Petterssonbåt Monalisa att den var byggd på Lidingö. Mina efterforskningar om Monalisa leder till varvet Gustafsson & Andersson på Lidingö som idag heter Boghammar:

• everts-cruiser-monalisa/ pdf/ boghammar-flyer.pdf
  (Boghammar Marin – en varvsepok över 100 år, PDF-fil)
• http://www.lidingo hembygd.se/
  (Lidingö Hembygd Museum)
• https://www.lidingo nyheter.se/ gustafsson-anderssons-varv- ...
  (Boghammar över 100 år, Lidingö Nyheter)
• https://www.lidingo nyheter.se/ gustafsson-anderssons-varv- ...
  (Boghammar över 100 år, föredrag, Lidingö Nyheter)

2019 Visning / Föredrag

• Visningar av Alba Nova teleskopet:

  http://www.astro.su.se/ om-oss/ evenemang/ teleskopvisningar
  (Alba Nova teleskopet, Stockholms universitet)

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