News:

Here I have collected news I found interesting.

Technology, Astronomy, Cars, Travels etc.

September 17, 2018

• In just a couple of days we leave Sweden for a one week holiday at Crete, island of Greece.

As usual when we travel to a new place I try to find something related to astronomy at the local place. I have done a list what we maybe can do when at in place.

We will tell more later.

September 15, 2018

• Preparing for an astrophotography night:

  
  (Mount with twin cameras)

We are now preparing for the astrophotography night. We stay at the summerhouse 30 km Eastern of Stockholm city. Our first plan was to meet friends at the nearby parking lot, but no one seems to come. Not sure about what objects we try to catch. Astronomical darkness from 10 pm to 4 am and the Moon is down. No clouds, all looks perfect and it's still +10 degrees Celsius.

We bring with us the Star Adventurer mini mount, Canon 6D with Sigma 150 mm f/2.8 APO, Canon EOS M with Canon 50 mm f/1.8. Heating band for both lenses and two USB power batteries. Everything mounted on a stable tripod.

If we catch something nice I write about it here.

After a lot of trouble with the mount I got the NGC 752 Open Cluster, read more details here:

What happened with the Star Adventurer?

Follow up:

September 15, 2018

• A walk among the beauties:

  The junkyard
  (My own photo)

September 12, 2018

• A short report from the MAK Star party 2018:

  The story and the more photos
  (My own photo)

September 6, 2018

• Yngve's strange machines:

  More photos
  (My own photo)

Do you have any idea what this is?

September 1, 2018

• Macro photography, setup and test:

  Macro photography setup
  (My own photo)

August 28, 2018

• Försvarsmaktens flygdag 2018:

  Airshow Uppsala, Sweden 2018
  (My own photo)

August 24, 2018

• Svindersvik car meeting:

  Car meeting Svindersvik, Sweden, 2018
  (My own photo)

August 13, 2018

• Sagittarius star party:

  My travels in Sweden, 2018 years Öland Star Party
  

July 27, 2018

• Blood Moon 2018:

  astronomy/my-astronomy-photo/moon/blood-moon-2018.html
  (My own photo)

27 april, 2018

• Bor du i södra Stockholm och har svårt att hitta mörka platser att fotografera stjärnhimlen ifrån? Här är några förslag från mig och mina vänner:

  astronomy/ observationsplatser/ observationsplatser.html
  (Observationsplatser södra Stockholm)

February 14, 2018

• Tired of cloudy nights? I almost gave up my astronomy hobby, but then I took a look what data there are in the archives that can be used:

  My processing of archived data
  (Use science data all days year around, don't worry about clouds)

New links:

Here I have collected new links that I found interesting.

Technology, Astronomy, Cars, Travels etc.

21 September, 2018

Recently I found at Youtube some very interesting historical maps, from Sweden where I live to the whole world. They are animated and very educational too look at. There are information about people, borders, war and more. You will learn a lot from these.

• Collection of links to animated historical maps to other parts of the world:

  links/links-others.html#history-animated-maps
  (World History animated maps, Youtube)

If you live in Sweden as I do, start with the Swedish map to test your memory from the history lessons in school.

1 September, 2018

• Cooled modified DSLR cameras:

  http://www.centralds.net/ cam/
  (Cooled DSLR, CentraIDS)

31 August, 2018

• How did NASA get those great film shots of Apollo and the Shuttle?

  
  (Curious Droid, NASA cameras, Youtube)

If you are interested in photography you must see this mini documentary about NASA's cameras.

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)

2018

• If you ever come to Bulgaria you have to visit this observatory:

  http://nao-rozhen.org/ index_en.html
  (Bulgarian observatory Rozhen NAO)

  What a beautiful place at altitude 1700 m.

• At the same place the amateur astronomy club Stellar Society Association have their observatory. Here is a video over the construction of the observatory:

  https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v= 5d2ORktuuZg
  (Bulgarian amateur astronomers observatory)

A tips from Ivo, the man who develop the APT camera control software.

torsdagar, 2018 (OBS Endast vid fint väder)

• Veteranbilsträff på Nifsta Gård:

  http://www.nifstagk.se/
  (Bilträff Nifsta Gård)

• Mitt första besök på Trosa veteranbilsträff:

  .. vehicles/nifsta-gard-2018/nifsta-gard-2018.html
  (Bilder från veteranbilsträffen på Nifsta Gård)

Nifsta ligger norr om Stockholm nära Gottröra.

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.

26 September, 2018

• Vad vet du om 1100-talet:

  http://historiska.se/ kalendarium/ 2018/ 09/ 26/ vad-vet-du-om-1100-talet-2018/
  (Historiska)

2018

• Visningar av Alba Nova teleskopet:

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